Fantastic airshow, day 1!

The weather was super! The flying awesome! The GoPro videos kicked ass! Videos will be sent on CCTV tonight and will be seen by aprox 250 million people! Not bad ey! :D

 

Opening cermony was with coloured smoking fireworks, para gliders and speach. Scandinavian airshow was displayed three times, Jacob flew Wasp and Python, and Sus flew Catwalk with me and Emma on the wings. Gently, I can say that Scandinavian Airshow is a success here. A proffessional team, all three airplanes in same hot design and showes everything from high level aerobatic to advanced wingwalking with funny cat caracters! Gently, WE ROCK! ;) We also spend a lot of time with people for photos and handshaking. Big golden star to owner Jacob Holländer, and to all crew members! Good work!

 

One of my biggest interests now is the video recording. Our GoPros are mounted in different angels every day, and as soon as the show is over I collect all cameras and start to check it with my computer. Hopefully I can show you some in a near time! I Will now continue my work with organizing movies and also do some planning for THE new year happening (Åre, here we come!)

 

Day before show! Gopro cams are up n running!

Another nice day. Its warm again, and a hole of blue sky is seen wheen looking up. Along the horizon the smog covers the vieuw.

All five GoPro cameras was mounted to on the cameras, to try angles and mountings. Some of them was super, and some need some adjustments. It looks really proffsionall with the matching yellow covers. I'll give you some photos of today for you to enjoy ;) Myself, I have to get into bed and sleeeeeeep! Tomorrow will be a long showday :)

Sleep tight! x H

Day before show! Gopro cams are up n running!

Another nice day. Its warm again, and a hole of blue sky is seen wheen looking up. Along the horizon the smog covers the vieuw.

All five GoPro cameras was mounted to on the cameras, to try angles and mountings. Some of them was super, and some need some adjustments. It looks really proffsionall with the matching yellow covers. I'll give you some photos of today for you to enjoy ;) Myself, I have to get into bed and sleeeeeeep! Tomorrow will be a long showday :)

Sleep tight! x H

We are now retailers for GOPRO extreme sport cameras!

CRAZY GOOD NEWS!

GoPro is the best HD cam you can find for extreme sports! It is allready a success in skydiving, basejumping, motor sports, skiing and so many more! Super light weight, waterproof and proffessional video and photo quality!

Our shop will open 12th of november with 10% discount on all purchases! Throw your old heavy stuff away and join the new way to get the coolest wide-angle videos/photos! Welcome!

wingwalked today :)

Another day at the airport! And today skycats finally got up in the sky to fly! Awesome as always! Photos: Emma Alexsson

all airplanes are ready :)

After the rain on sunday, monday actually showed a blue sky! The air was fresh and clear. How we appreciated that. The surroundings here is dirty. They throw the trash in the ditch and some million people daily burn rests from the corn they grow, wich creates the smog. Corn is the most common crop in the area. The streets are half covered by drying corn and the traffic has to pass on the sides. The village we drive trough to go to the airport is really poor. All houses looks rough and rusty, everywhere people is working, selling fruits and food along the streets. Loose dogs looks happy tripping around between corncobs, children and fast driving cars and three wheel motobikes, overloaded with whatever.

All three airplanes are ready and today Jacob flew Wasp and Python. The rain came back today and in the afternoon there was no idea to continue with flying Catwalk. Jacob was interviued for tonights news, me and Emma where presented by Ruben, the organizer, and did some cat posing on the Catwalk. Tomorrow pilot Sus will come back to join us. He is bringing a bunch of GoPro cameras I ordered for the airshow!

This night we had dinner at the hotel and celebrated one of the americans on his birthday! The huge cake was sweet and we also sang for in in swedish :) The cake was beautifully decorated with fruits... and tomato! and parsley! After dinner we had a walk along the streets here, I bought a pair of travell pants, army style-ish for my transsibirian trip home. They cost 79 SEK, thats nearly for free!

More photos :)

Thanks to Emma (getcloser.se) for photos! :)

One airplane is ready

The internet is on and off, but I think they solved the problem now. Catwalk is ready, and today we started with Python. Or the technicans did... but me and Emma helped out as much as we could with carrying stuff, holding stuff, and.... other stuff!

The heat is gone and today was a rainy and cold day.... The nice thing is that the smog goes away and the air is fresh to breath. The smog isnt nice at all. At the end of the day you feel dirty and your troath sore. They never see real blue sky here, its like early dawn all the time when sun is up. The rain today made the work in the hangar a bit difficult, because we dont have proper light. See the pictures!

At night we ate hot pot at a local cosy resturant. Delicious as always! And spiiiiicy! :) Popular spices is ginger and garlic wich I love, so I wont get sick here eating so much of that ;)

First day of work

This morning we opened the containers, its a bit nervous. Because they dont drive carefully here and airplanes are fragile ifnot handled correctly. You can tell from all protecting material that its been a rough ride but thanks to all securing and padding it all survived. The american team had two holes in their airplanes... no good.

We started to get out all parts for the 'Catwallk', the wingwalking airplane. In the hangar where we rolled in the body of the plane, wings and all other parts, maybe 10 people is living! Its their home! Feelt weird to enter and start to work and be noisy when they live there. They used about one quarter of the hangar in the middle living in tents. Last year when we where here, the hangar was built up. It was much better interior now and big equipment to handle heavy and big stuff, helpful for us to get the wings on.

 

The weather was really warm today and I must have hundreds of mosquito bites.... itchy!

Terracotta soldiers and horses museum

We arrived to our new hotel last night. Its more simple and not in the center of the town so we will be much closer to the airport. Last year we had one hour drive to get there and one hour back... After checking in we had a walk outside, what a different world! Its crowed on the streets and squares, peolpe are dancing, watching movies on old fashion screens and enjoying food and drinks. Its a pretty poor hood but peolpe seems very friendly and curious. Since pilot Sus and technican Magnus went back to Sweden we are 4 left since Chonqing airshow. But a new technican, Niklas, has joined us now. Together with the american teams we joined the locals and sat down around a table for a beer. Here all beer are very mild! We where given gifts from the food carts to try local delicasys like spicy fried pancake, some meat sticks and tiny apples with sour glaze.

 

Next day- today- we visited the terracotta soldiers and horses museum. For me it was my second time there, but its still amazing. They were made for more than 2000 years ago to protect Chinas first emperor in his afterlife. The underground work was trashed and set on fire and thereafter it was hidden under ground until 1974 when a farmer found it drilling a water well. Go there if you get the chance!

 

I got loads of photos I took with the lens I bought in Chongqing, but unfortunatly I cant connect it to my computer to show them to you... I'll do my best to fix it soon!

 

Our containers arrived today to the airport, and tomorrow we will go and start the work to put the airplanes together again. It will be hot days ahead according to the forecast. Today was hot and sunny as well.

 

To be continued ;)