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Bernard Eaday |
Visiting
Jumper: Burnnie first jumped at Labertouche
as a member of the 4-Way Team "Lead Feather Chicken Hearts" in the 2nd
Australian Relative Work Championships 1974
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Peter Eadie
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Visiting
SAS Skydivers jumper: Peter first jumped at
Labertouche on July 15th 1972.
He
jumped as a member of the 10-Man Speed Star Team "Leroy Brown" in the 2nd
Relative Work Championships (73/74)
Peter
played a leading role in the development of Australian competition
relative work and was a member of a number of Australian Relative Work
Parachuting Teams. He was Team Captain of the famous
"Prometheus" 8-Way RW Team.
He
represented Australia at the
1st
World Championships in RW, Warrendorf, Germany 1975
3rd
World Championships in RW, Chatreuroux, France 1979
4th
World Championships in RW, Zephyrhills, USA 1981
6th
World Championships in RW, Foz du Iguacu, Brazil 1987
Peter
contributed greatly to the advancement of Formation Skydiving in
Australia. |
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John Earl |
Visiting
Jumper: First jumped at
Labertouche on December 14th 1975 from 7,000.
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Alan Ebel
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Visiting
American Jumper:
Alan
first jumped at Labertouche on the 28th may 1972.
He
jumped at the Centre as a member of the 10-Man Speed Star Team "The Valley
Rats" in the 2nd Australian Relative Work Championships (73/74)
He w as a member of the team "Aces
High" in the 4th Australian Relative Work Championship 10-Man Star Event.
(1975/76)
Alan became one of the core group of jumpers at Labertouche and formed a
relationship with one of the student jumpers that eventually blossomed into
marriage.
He returned to
the USA on the ?? of ?? 197? |
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Robert Eberhard |
Visiting
Jumper: Bob first jumped at
Labertouche on December 14th 1974 from 7,000ft. 25/4/75
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Doug Eccles |
Visiting
Jumper: Doug first jumped at Labertouche on March
27th
1967. |
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Bernard Eddy |
Visiting
Jumper: Bernard's first jump at Labertouche was on New Years day 1974 from 8,500ft.
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David Eddy |
Visiting jumper:
Dave
first jumped at Labertouche on December 30th 1975 from 7,000ft.
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Alan Eden
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1968 |
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Alan
made his first jump on the 10th of January 1965 at Pakenham with Southern Cross Skydivers.
His first jump at Labertouche was on the 31st of July 1965 and he stayed on at the Centre to become
a member of the core instruction group for many years. He
worked mainly in ab initio training and among his first jump students were Bob
Courtenay, Tony Curl, Peter Ellery, Tony Hillman, Russell Jones, Roy Taylor
and Phil Whatmore. Alan held APF
Instructor Rating No. 109
Alan
was APF Judge No. 13 and judged many competitions at the Centre and
interstate.
He
was a Laboratory Technician with the Defence Department and was dedicated to
his job and his jumping.
The
Gardner family were local farmers that had an interest in aviation and Alan
was entranced by Carolyn, one of the daughters. They married in 1968 and after living on
the other side of Melbourne in Melton for many years, now live in the Latrobe
Valley area. |
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Anthony
Edwards
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Kazanlak |
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Visiting
Albury Jumper: Tony made his first jump
at Lae, New Guinea in 1968 and spent one and a half years jumping there before coming
home to Australia.
He
was an itinerant jumper around the Melbourne area for about 6 years and in
1975 was involved in the birth of Meredith Parachute Club.
Tony
visited Labertouche regularly in the 70's and often jumped with the Golden
Eagles.
He
and Roy Marker were the Leyland Parachute Team and were into landing on
truck trays and the like. The Leyland Team became international
and was active in Malaysia.
Tony
was Australian Head of Delegation for the 15th WPC in Kazanlak, Bulgaria
in 1980. He also accompanied Australian Teams to Japan, Spain and Saudi Arabia.
He
organised the 1st World POPS Meet at the Ettamogah Pub in 1991 and jumped at the 2nd
World POPS Meet in Orlando, Florida USA in 1993.
More |
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James Edwards |
Visiting
Jumper: Jim first jumped at
Labertouche on December 12th 1974 from 8,500ft
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Phillip Edwards
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Visiting
South Australian Jumper: Phil's first jump at
Labertouche was on the 22nd of December 1966. He was 1963 Australian
Accuracy Champion and came to Labertouche to jump in competitions and sometimes
just for fun.
He
was a Gatehouse jumper and on his first Gatehouse jump demolished the
north fence. See the Gatehouse page for a photo.
Phil
was in the wine trade and maybe he still is. If you read this
Phil,
give us a bell. |
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Judy Egan |
Visiting
Jumper:
Judy
first
jumped at the Centre
in the 13th Australian Parachute Championships (73/74)
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Bill Egan |
Visiting
Jumper: Bill first jumped at
Labertouche on the 27th of December 1972 from
10,500ft. |
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Debbie Elkington |
Visiting Jumper:
Debbie first jumped at Labertouche
during the 13th Australian Style and Accuracy Championships as a drift
indicator for the accuracy event. |
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Rod Ellard |
Rod's
first jump was at Labertouche on the 15th of April 1973.
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Peter Ellery
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Peter's first jump
was at Labertouche on July 7th 1968. He joined
the Australian Navy as a trainee pilot and when his service with the navy
finished he came back to Victoria and went into partnership with Claude to
buy the Blue Goose (VH-DMS).
Last
news of Peter he was flying jumpers at Toogoolawah.
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Mick Elliott |
Visiting
Jumper: Mick first
jumped at the Centre
in the 13th Australian Classic Parachute Championships (73/74)
and was a member of
the 10 Man Speed Star Team "Apple Tart" in the
2nd Australian Relative Work Championships
(1974) |
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Kevin Eltham |
Visiting
Jumper: Kevin first jumped at Labertouche on
December 21st 1975 from 8,000ft. |
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Tony Engbarth
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Visiting
Jumper:
Tony
first jumped at the Centre as a member of
the 10-Man Speed Star Team "True Trash" in the 2nd Australian Relative
Work Championships (73/74) |
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Thomas Ennis
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Foundation
member. Tommy was a member of Southern Cross
Skydivers and transferred with the club to Labertouche within weeks of
Labertouche commencing operations.
The
picture at left is from a newspaper clipping from 'The Sun' of December
30th 1963, describing how Tommy, Jock Moir and Helmut Hor landed in the
sea off Torquay.
Helmut
landed 200 yards from the beach, Tommy and Jock landed close to each other
100 yards from the beach.
Helmut
lost all of his parachuting equipment and clung to a surf ski with a
stranger who came to his rescue, they were picked up by a rescue boat.
Jimmie
Davis ran half a mile from the dropzone to the beach and swam out to try
and help Helmut, a rip carried him away and past Helmut, the boat picked
him up and he was treated by a doctor for exhaustion.
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Paul Etherton |
Visiting
jumper: Paul
first jumped at Labertouche on the 3rd of December
1971 |
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Marilyn
Ettema
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Marilyn
first jumped at Labertouche on July 15th 1979. She jumped at
the Centre regularly for some time.
Her
happy smiling attitude to life was infectious and she is remembered with
affection by all who knew her.
She
took up BASE jumping while at the 4th World Championships of Relative Work
in
Zephyrhills,
Florida, USA and was killed making a jump into a ravine in New South wales.
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Rosemary
Evan-Jones |
Visiting
Jumper: First jumped at Labertouche on July 5th
1975 from 8,000ft. |
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Malcolm Evans |
Mal's
first jump was at Labertouche on January 14th 1980. 11/6/83
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P. Evans |
Visiting
jumper:
First
jumped at Labertouche on the 19th of March 1967. |
