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Steve Gaal |
Visiting
American Jumper: A Los Angeles
jumper, Steve first jumped at Labertouche on the 3rd of June
1972. |
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Wimoko Garjito |
Visiting
Indonesian Team Member: Wimoko first
jumped at Labertouche on December 28th in the 14th Australian Parachute
Championships, Accuracy Event. |
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Laurian
Garnett |
Visiting
Jumper: First jumped at Labertouche on
Melbourne Cup Day, the 2nd of November 1982 from 8,000ft.
11/6/83
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Michael Garrard |
Visiting
Jumper: Michael first jumped at Labertouche on
March 11th 1973 and from time to time over the next few years.
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Skratch Garrison
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Then
& now |
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Visiting
American jumper: Skratch visited Labertouche on his way
home to California from the 10-Way Star Meet in New Zealand in 1972 during
the Labertouche Cup.
During
Skratch's stay at the Centre,
he and Claude spent many hours discussing their two relative work training
systems. Skratch had included a number of jumps with no contact
formation flying in his program and Claude was interested in adding
no-contact flying into his course.
When
Skratch was leaving, he and Ted Harrison were flown to the airport in one
of the jumpships. Most of the staff went out to the airstrip
and mooned Skratch as the aircraft took off.
A
few months later on one of Claude's trips to the USA he was surprised to
find that he was better known on the California jump scene than he
expected to be. When he commented on it to one of his friends,
he got the answer "Any president of a national parachuting organisation that will
take part in a moon is certain to be well known here".
Skratch
is still jumping and enjoying it. |
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Gordon Gecele
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Visiting
Darwin jumper: Gordon was a Darwin jumper who visited the
Centre for competitions and sometimes to fun jump.
An
inveterate gambler, he enjoyed any card game at all. On one occasion he
won the Chief Instructor's nest egg that he had put aside to go to the
unofficial RW World Cup in New Zealand.
A
true blue Aussie Territorian who was always welcome at the Gillard Hilton.
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Ferd
Geistendor |
Visiting
Jumper: Ferdy first jumped at Labertouche in the
early 1980's from VH-RPT at 8,500ft |
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Mick Gerrard |
Visiting
Jumper: Mick first jumped at Labertouche on
February 28th 1976 from 8,000ft. |
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Sam Giacomantirno |
Visiting
Darwin Jumper:
A
member of 3 RAR Parachute Club, Sam
first jumped at Labertouche in March 1966. He jumped in the
Labertouche Spectacular Hit and Run Meet in May 1966.
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Peter
Gill |
Visiting
Jumper: Peter first jumped at
Labertouche on the 12th of December from 8,000ft.
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Claude
Gillard
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20/04/1964 |
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Founding
Partner: Claude and Bill Molloy were the
founders of the Centre.
Whatever
time that he was not attending to Labertouche management Claude spent
developing the Australian Parachute Federation. He was responsible
for the APF purchasing a building, was the instigator of the birth of the
Australian Sport Aviation Confederation and represented all of Australian
Sport Aviation at the Federation Aeronautique Internationale for 10 years.
The
photograph at left was taken on location for the television production
"New Horizons", the life story of the ballet star, Robert Pommie.
Claude took 16mm film footage of Robert's free fall to portray his
experiences in the French Foreign Legion.
Claude was Team Leader of the Australian Team at the 10th World
Parachute Championships in Bled, Yugoslavia. He was Head of
Delegation for many Australian Teams over the next 30 years and is
compiling a history of sport parachuting in Australia.
More |
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John Gilles |
Visiting
Jumper: John first jumped at
Labertouche on November 24th 1974. |
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John Gillett |
Visiting jumper: John first jumped at Labertouche on July 30th 1967. |
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Gary Gillis |
Visiting jumper: Gary first jumped at Labertouche on November 27th 1971 .
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Gus Gillis |
Visiting
Jumper:
Gus
first jumped at Labertouche on April 30th
1972. |
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John Ginniff
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Visiting
Pakenham
Jumper:
John first jumped at Labertouche on February 23rd 1969. He also
was there on April
25th 1971 for the Scottish Twin Pioneer jumps from 15,000ft.
John competed in the 2nd
Australian Relative Work Championships at the Centre. (73/74) |
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Col.
(R) George Goetzke
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Then
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Visiting
American Jumper:
George came to Australia
on Rest and Recreation from the Vietnam Conflict with Hal Fostervold and Gus
Gutshall.
George
had been given Claude's phone number by another jumper and called up to ask about midweek jumping. Three jumpers was all you
needed to fill a Cessna 172 and these guys were prepared to fly to Melbourne, so Claude arranged to have them picked up at
the airport and they climbed aboard the next flight to Melbourne.
The only stop on the way to the dropzone
was to pick up a case of beer. They enjoyed their stay and
got lots of jumps. They stayed for the Labertouche Cup and shared
good times with the Labertouche jumpers. Everybody remembers
their fun times.
George
and Claude met again in Bangkok some years later and became
close friends. George has supported skydiving in Thailand for
many years and was Aircraft Controller at the Chiang Mai Canopy Relative
Work World
Championships in 1990.
Is now retired and lives in Hua Hin,
Thailand. He had a beautiful Wolf/Malamute cross dog called
Ranger that standing on all fours; his head was high enough that he
could see what was on a table. Going for a walk in the
streets of Bankok with Ranger was a special experience; he spooked a lot
of people.
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Bill Glover |
Visiting
jumper: Bill first jumped at
Labertouche on April
3rd
1967. |
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John Goda
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Visiting
Alice Springs jumper: John first
jumped at the Centre on New Years Day 1971.
If
our memory is correct, John is an American expat. We don't have a photo
from back then but we do have a recent one, Ray's hand obviously wasn't too
steady when he took this.
He is now living in Darwin. |
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Sue Goldner
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Sue's
first jump was at Labertouche on March 3rd 1981.
One
of the people that personify our sport with the bubbling confidence that is
the hallmark of people who enjoy life and make us all feel good about living.
We
feel proud that the Centre introduced this jumper to the sport.
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Meg Gorman |
Visiting
jumper: Meg first jumped at Labertouche on
January 7th 1978 from 8,500ft. |
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Mike Gough |
Visiting
jumper: Mike first jumped at
Labertouche on May
20th
1967 |
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Mike Golden
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Mike's first jump was at
Labertouche on the 8th of January 1966. He earned his International
B Licence on the 25th April 1969. Most of his jumps at the
Centre having
been made during late 1968 through to 1971.
We
hear that he spent a
lot of time jumping in the Northern Territory. |
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Doc Goodman |
Visiting
Geelong Jumper: Doc
first jumped at Labertouche on December 13th 1974 from 8,000ft.
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Arthur Gould |
Visiting
jumper: Arthur first jumped at
Labertouche on the
24th of July
1972 from the Pilatus Porter. |
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Garnet Gourlay |
Visiting
South Australian Jumper:
Upon arriving in Melbourne
Garnet joined the Victorian
Parachute Club and his first jump at Labertouche was on the 12th of
October 1967. |
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David Graham
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Dave first jumped at
Labertouche on April 13th 1982 from 4,500ft.
He
worked with the National Safety Council and represented Australia at the:
7th
World Championships in RW, Foz du Iguacu, Brasil 1987 &
the
8th
World Championships in RW, Ampuriabrava, Spain 1989
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Gregory Graham
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Visiting Pakenham
Jumper: Greg first jumped at Labertouche on
the 28th of September 1967.
He also
jumped as a member of the 10-Man Speed Star Team "Star Pact" in the 2nd Australian Relative Work Championships (73/74)
at the
Centre.
Greg
represented Australia at the:
1st
World Championships in RW, Warrendorf, Germany 1975 and the
3rd
World Championships in RW, Chatreauroux, France 1979 |
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Robert Graham |
Visiting jumper:
Robert first jumped at
Labertouche on the 10th of January 1970. |
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Helen Grant
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Visiting Pakenham
Jumper: Helen first jumped at
Labertouche on December 14th 1974 from 6,000ft.
Helen represented Australia at
the 18th World Championships in Ankara 1986, Turkey and was an FAI Judge from
31/01/1980 to ??/??/??. |
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Mike Grey |
Visiting
jumper: Mike first jumped at Labertouche on
December 26th 1975 from 10,000ft. |
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Peter Green |
Visiting
Jumper: Peter first jumped at
Labertouche on January 18th 1981 from 8,500ft.
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Hugh Gregory
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Visiting Canadian Jumper:
Hugh spent some time in Australia. He first jumped at Labertouche in
1977 and travelled to and from Canada for some years.
Very well known in
Australian Skydiving as an eccentric who wanted to participate in all
aspects of jumping, involving himself in anything and
everything. He was editor of Australian Skydiver magazine
during the 2nd World Championship of Relative Work, judge's penciller
at a Nationals at Corowa, attended Rel Week on more than one
occasion and was the cause of many a case of beer being bought by
unsuspecting jumpers.
Hugh took up flying and
won the Civil Aviation Authority's title "Student of the year".
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John Greig
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Visiting
Queensland Jumper:
John
earned his Aussie Star Crest at Labertouche on the ??
John later took up
Canopy Relative Work and represented Australia at the 2nd World Cup of CRW,
La Pallisse, France 1982 as a member of "Crooz".
One of skydiving's
"Gentleman Jumpers". |
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Craig
Grendon |
Visiting
Jumper: |
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Mike Grey |
Visiting
Jumper: Mike
first jumped
at Labertouche at the Nationals 73/74.
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Roman Groblicki
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Roman
made his first jump at Labertouche on
the 17th of May 1981 and was a regular jumper through 1983 and continued
with Eagle Skydivers at Pakenham East, is still jumping and has 2,000
plus jumps. |
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R. Grobury |
Visiting
jumper: Probably first jump at
the centre was on March 4th 1982. |
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Leo Gronendjik
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Gonzo's
first jump was made at Labertouche on ??/??/?? He carried on
with Eagle Skydivers to become an Instructor when they moved to Pakenham.
We
hear that Gonzo is now a successful clothing designer.
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John Groth |
Visiting jumper:
John
first jumped at
Labertouche on the 27th of December 1968. |
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Dieter Grousch |
Visiting
Jumper:
Dieter first jumped at
Labertouche on December 25th 1972. He
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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Dianne Grubb
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Dianne's first jump was at Labertouche on ??.
Dianne was a regular
jumper at the Centre for ? years and was a regular part of the Golden
Eagles ground crew. |
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Fred Gungle
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Fred's first jump was made
at Labertouche on March 14th 1976.
He was regular jumper at
the Centre for a long time. He liked to push his jumping to the edge
of the envelope and occasionally got up to mischief; like jumping into the
backyard of the Longwarry Pub at the end of the day.
Fred is a Ski Instructor
and attends the occasional Thai Boogie and similar events.
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Brian Gunn |
Visiting
South African jumper: Brian did some
style training at the Centre in September 1969.
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Chris Guerney |
Visiting
Jumper: Chris first jumped on December 25th 1972.
He jumped in the 13th Style and Accuracy
Championships (73/74) and was a member of the 10 Man Speed Star Team "True
Trash" in the 2nd Australian Relative Work Championships 1974.
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Gus Gutshall
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At
the Gatehouse |
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Visiting
American jumper:
Gus
came to Labertouche on R&R from Vietnam with George Goetzke and Hal
Fostervold. His name was known to Aussie jumpers because
of his reputation as a parachute instructor
in United States military circles. It was rumoured that he was with
the Flying Tigers in Burma. So he enjoyed celebrity status on
the dropzone.
Gus
lived up to all expectations and jumped into the Gatehouse with his two
team mates. They jumped in the 1969 Labertouche Cup.
The
designer of this website, Thom Lyons was one of Gus' pupils in the 60's.
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Ray Guy
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Visiting Pakenham jumper. Ray first jumped at Labertouche on the
24th of August 1965. |
