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Wing Clipping “The Yellow Angel”

The Ambulance Plane landed no less than 3 times yesterday. Nevertheless they are now going to shut down the airport and cut off some 20.000 people from this life-saving transport. Instead they are going to build a bridge and transport patients to a regional airport. Compared to the 5-minute ride from the local hospital to Narvik Airport today, the patients will in the future have to be transported to Harstad/Narvik Airport, Evenes. A transport-time of at least 45 minutes. How many critically ill patients will die during these some extra 40 minutes? Today the ambulance operator Lufttransport AS flies some 300 missions a year to Narvik Lufthavn.

The picture below is a montage of one of the “Yellow Angel’s” 3 missions to Narvik yesterday.


“Visit” Narvik..!

A few excellent links on Narvik:

INARVIK – Magazine about Narvik (Norwegian)

FREMOVER – Local Newspaper (Norwegian)

DestinationNarvik – Travel information about Narvik (English version)

Wonder what the Norwegian pages is all about? Try Google Translate!


Moon above the Narvik Airport airstrip in long-distance floodlights

Long-distance floodlights on runways are remotely turned on by pilots on the commercial flights trafficing the local airports in Norway. This makes the airports visible from long distances. As the aircraft approaches the airport, the floodlights are dimmed as not to blind the pilots on final approach for landing.


City of Narvik beneath the rainbow


Steaming out the Ofoten Fjord

…carrying some of the World’s purest iron ore.


Memories of a summer…

View from Ankenes towards Narvik and Herjangen (opposite side of the Ofoten Fjord).

View from Ankenes towards Narvik and Herjangen (opposite side of the Ofoten Fjord).

View from the Upper Gondola Station Cafe – overlooking Ankenes (left), Narvik (right) and out the Ofoten Fjord.

View from the Fagernes Mt. with the mt. “Sleeping Queen” (Sovende Dronning) 1.576 m in the background. Click for detailed picture.

View from the Fagernes Mountain overlooking the Ofoten Fjord.

View from Ankenes towards Narvik and Herjangen (opposite side of the Ofoten Fjord).

Still Summer’s Day – View from Ankenes towards Narvik and Herjangen (opposite side of the Ofoten Fjord).

Foggy Autumn Morning

View from Ankenes towards Narvik and Herjangen (opposite side of the Ofoten Fjord).

View from Ankenes towards Narvik and Herjangen (opposite side of the Ofoten Fjord).

Rainbow forms a frame around the City of Narvik

Beautiful light in the sky. View from Ankenes towards Narvik and Herjangen (opposite side of the Ofoten Fjord).

Not every cloud has a silver lining – but they can be beautiful. View from Ankenes towards Narvik and Herjangen (opposite side of the Ofoten Fjord).

View of Narvik seen from Herjangen. In the background – Mt. “The Sleeping Queen”  (“Den Sovende Dronning). Fagernes mt. on the left.

Beautiful sunrise over Narvik

Beautiful sunset. View from Ankenes towards Narvik and Herjangen (opposite side of the Ofoten Fjord).


Autumn in Narvik