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As announced on www.vikersund.no they finally will start building the largest hill in the world this year!

The hillsize will be HS 215.

This is great news for all skijump enthusiasts!

This wil be ready in 2011

Planica is HS215 aswell and its extended a little bit every year. Im looking forward though to the Vikersund "restoration" =)

The hill in planica has 130 meters in hight from the jump to the "bottom" of the hill.
(this is the maximum according to FIS regulations)
Vikersund is working towards FIS to get 134-135 meters, that means that jumping around 250 meters is possible.
This is difficult in the current hill in planica.

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The Department of Culture has granted NOK 23 million to the planned renovation and expansion of the Norwegian skiflying arena at Vikersund, a project estimated to cost NOK 70 million.
The planned expansion will make the Vikersund the largest skiflying hill in the world, and will compete with Planica for the record lengths, according to the head of the Vikersund Arena, Willy Holseter.

(NRK)

This is all sick , 240m should be the limit

Why do you say that?
If the hill is buildt in a way that make a jumper jump 300meters in a safe way, why is this a bad thing?

Humans will always want to push the limits nomather what.
It's in our genes:)

If the FIS allowed more than 130 meters, guess what would instantly happen in Planica?

Didn't they say in Vikersund that the wordl record could possibly be beaten last year? Schlierenzauer crashed and burned at less than 230 meters. There's some serious daydreaming going on in Norway. Vikersund is similar to Oberstdorf, I'd say. So it's one of the 3 biggest hills in the world. That's good enough. Planica will always be number 1. It's part of skijumping tradition ...

300m will be impossible, the inrun speed would be to high and the forces on the jumper in the air woul be uncalculatable. There are physical limits and i dont want to see them tested at human beings.
Even today we saw jumps where jumpers had really trouble in the air with an inrun speed of 102km/h. and i am talking about top ten jumpers in the world.

Schnitzel wrote:300m will be impossible...
There are physical limits...

I'm sure that similar things had been said before Beamon stunned the world back in 1968...

hehe 8.90 Bob Beamon amazing:)

300m ARE possible, you don´t need a higher inrun speed to jump that far...
( K120---> Inrun speed: ca 92 km/h
K185---> Inrun speed: ca 103 km/h
Speed difference: ca 10-11 km/h
Cavity difference: about 100 m )
the hill just has to be constructed the right way and the material (skis, suits) has to be imroved too. if the hill is very arduous then it´s possible to jump 300m without endangering the jumper. of course during the flight it should not be posseble to get higher than maybe 5m or stuff like that....

Latest animated photo.

Walter Hoefer belives in new records in this hill, already in february 2011!



Skijumping is taking to a new level with this hill.
This will be the largest hill in the world and there will be totally safe to land on 230-240 meters.
Totally cost is over 70 mill NOK.

But the FIS rules do not allow "over long"jumps.Gate is really down and record breaking will be really hard..... so there we see who is best ski jumper and flyer in the WORLD

It doesn't look so big like planica, it looks as the old vikersund - I looked it today