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Basil Hadley
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Visiting
Pakenham Jumper:
A
member of Jindivik Sport Parachute Club,
Basil
first jumped at Labertouche on the 16th of April 1966.
Basil was a successful
artist who painted a few skydiving scenes in his early years but burnt
them in a public relations campaign along the way.
He also doctored a photograph
of Claude and Prince Phillip that appeared in a newspaper by enlarging the
prince's ear inferring that he had received an ear-bashing from Claude and
titled the work GOD (Gillard Of Doveton) and the name stuck for a long
time. |
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David Hall
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Visiting
Jumper: Dave first jumped at Labertouche on
March 2nd 1975 from 8,000ft. 26/8/79
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R. Hall |
Visiting
Jumper: First jumped at
Labertouche on December 28th 1975 from 8,000ft.
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David Hancock
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Visiting
Jumper: Bluebaker's
first jump at Labertouche was on October 19th 1980.
A
Freelance Photographer, used his photography and journalist skills to
promote Sport Parachuting and was the official photographer for
the World Record 21 Canopy Stack at the Official Opening
of the new Cairns Airport in 19??.
Represented Australia at the 4th World Championships in Relative Work at Zephyrhills,
Florida, USA 1981.
Bronze
Medals |
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Ian Handley
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1972 |
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Thalequah |
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Visiting
Sydney jumper: Ian
first
jumped at Labertouche on Boxing day 1970. He was a regular
visitor to the Centre and was invited on many of the Eagles display jumps.
Ian was a
competitor in every Style and Accuracy Championships held at Labertouche.
His nickname "Which Foot" came from his accuracy training habit of
challenging whoever was on the target when he turned on final to nominate which foot he should
strike the disc with.
A serial Australian accuracy champion, Ian was
also a real showman when making display jumps, using tricks like landing
on the roof of a double-decker bus or on the pillion seat of a motor bike
driven by his wife.
He
was
also a member of the "Leroy Brown" 10-Man Star Team in the 2nd Australian Relative Work
Championships at Labertouche 1973/74.
Ian
represented Australia at the 11th World Championships, Thalaquah,
Oklahoma, USA 1972.
Australia
was hosted at the above championships by a wealthy Indian Chief and Ian
surprised the team by keeping the Indian laughing throughout one night by
telling him politically incorrect jokes. The team had not seen
Ian in this role before.
In the early ays of
the sport he was a wholesale butcher but somewhere along the way took to
sport he loves as a professional skydiver.
Ian
is still an
active Tandem Master at Wilton Parachute Centre.
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Steve Handley |
Visiting
Jumper: Steve
first jumped at
Labertouche on the 27th
of March 1970. |
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Ken Hanson |
Visiting
Jumper: Ken
first jumped at
Labertouche on the 15th
of April 1970. |
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Robert
Harmer |
Visiting
Jumper: Rob first jumped at
Labertouche on the 12th of December 1982 from 8,000ft.
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P. Hart |
Visiting
jumper: First jumped at Labertouche on
January 4th 1976. |
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Graham
Harrington |
Visiting
in the true sense of the word, Graham's only jump into the Centre was on
a fly-in from Pakenham on the 26th of June 1983. |
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Andrew Harris
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Visiting
Jumper: Andy first jumped at
Labertouche on February 4th 1979.
Ex
SAS officer, Andy made a big impression on the sport. Opened a Training
Organisation at ??, moving to Pakenham dropzone for some time.
He
made some breakthroughs in skydiving becoming a saleable media attraction,
breaking new ground with public displays on Melbourne's beaches with radio
and television coverage.
Realising
that there was better pickings in business than in his hobby, Andy moved
into the construction industry and has been very successful in that
calling. He has moved on to become an investor and lives the high
life. |
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Fiona Harrison |
Fiona's
first jump was at Labertouche on September 5th 1981 and she went on to
become a highly experienced jumper.
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Ted Harrison
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Then
& recently |
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Visiting
South Australian Jumper:
Ted
first jumped at Labertouche in January 1968.
First jump was onto Salt Ash
Dropzone at RAAF Williamtown as a 2nd Lt. in the Citizens Military Forces
and he was the leading figure
in the early development of sport parachuting in South Australia.
Organised a public meeting to form the South Australian School of
Parachuting at Parafield in 1961. Held Australian
Parachutist Certificate E4 and was issued with Senior Instructor Rating 9
As
a journalist, Ted was able to assist the Australian Parachute Federation
with access to the media. His efforts were of great assistance
in the APF gaining the respect of the Department of Civil Aviation.
He
was South Australian representative on the APF Executive and helped
shape the early safety rules. His colourful language often made conservative jumpers wince but his straight talk and ability as
a skydiver endeared him to all. The first time he jumped
at the Centre was in January 1968.
Ted made 50
jumps in
a Wilton, New South Wales, Jumpathon to raise money for the Australian
Parachute Team to attend the World Championships.
He
was an active competition judge and held APF Judge Rating Number 10
All
who knew him will be sad to hear that Ted died of natural causes on the
morning of June 27th 2004. He was one of early parachuting's great
characters. A barrel of fun and a hard living legend in his
own time. |
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Anthony Hatcher |
Visiting
Jumper: Tony first jumped at
Labertouche on November 6th 1977 from 8,500ft.
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Rory Hatchet |
Visiting
Jumper: Rory first
jumped at Labertouche on December 20th 1975 from 7,000ft.
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P. Hayden |
Visiting
jumper:
First jumped at Labertouche on the 30th of
4th
of February 1967 |
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Janine Hayes
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Janine's
first jump was made at Labertouche on 19th of September 1981.
Always a very confident
student jumper, Janine went on to become an Australian Champion and
represented Australia at world championships in Nykoping - Sweden 1988,
Bled - Yugoslavia 1990, Trieben - Austria 1992, Chengdu - China 1994,
Bekescsaba - Hungary 1996 and Tallard-Gap - France 2003. She represented Australia at the
Asia/Pacific Championships at Dookie, Victoria in 1985 and won a silver
medal at the Skyblossom Festival International Parachute Meet - Japan 1991.
Competed in every Australian
Classic Event Parachute Championships from 1985 to 1994 except 1991 and
was co-organiser of the 1995 and 1996 events. Competed
in the Australian Para-Ski Championships 1993 and 1994, and was one of
the jumpers on the Australian record 81-Way formation at Corowa in 1999.
Long time member the APF Board and held a
number of official positions, including National
Development 1993/94 and Director Coaching 1995 to 1997.
Ran a skydiving and aerial charter business in Queensland while married
to Jim Czerwinski for some years. Returned to Victoria and is now
married to Ken Hills.
An
instructor since 1984, Janine
is still an active jumper and is Chief Instructor of Aerial Skydives at
Latrobe Regional Airport Traralgon. |
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Robert Hays |
Visiting
Jumper: Bob first jumped at Labertouche
on September 22nd 1973. |
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D. Healey |
Visiting
Jumper: First jumped at Labertouche on December
31st 1975 from 7,500ft. |
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Dominic Healy
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Dominic's
first jump was made at Labertouche on 7th of May 1983
He
became an Instructor and continued jumping with Labertouche Skydivers when it
moved to Pakenham and became Eagle Skydivers. |
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Mike Heap |
Visiting
Jumper: Mike
jumped at the Centre
in the 13th Australian Style and Accuracy Championships (73/74)
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Dennis Heenan |
Visiting jumper:
Dennis first jumped at Labertouche on July 20th 1968. |
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John Hendry |
Visiting
Jumper: John first jumped at Labertouche on
December 21st 1975
as
a member of the team "Metrognome" in the 4th Australian Relative
Work Championships 10-Man Star Event (1975/76).
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Kathryn
Henderson
U
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Orange 1962 |
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2003 |
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Visiting Adelaide Jumper:
Kathy jumped at Labertouche in January
1968.
She was
the only female member of the first
Australian team to compete in a World Parachuting Championships; the 6th
WPC at Orange,
Massachusetts, USA in 1962.
Involved in early relative work development, she was a baton pass
pioneer and the subject of some of Andy Keech's early air to air
masterpiece photographs.
Kathy became a
commercial pilot and flew commercially in outback Australia. She
flew for the Wildman River Station and for some time in Gove, where she
met her husband John Flynn a member of the "Flynn of the Outback"
family, the famous outback aviation doctor.
Her
married name was Kathryn Flynn and she held the honorary titles of Australian Governor of "The
Ninety Nines, Inc" an International Women Pilots Association and
president of the Northern Territory Women Pilots Association.
A
staunch supporter of Australian Football League team Port Adelaide, Kathy
attended the 2007 AFL Grand Final, during the match she felt unwell and
retired to her room at the Hilton Hotel that is nearby the Melbourne
Football Ground. She passed away peacefully during the night
from her illness and her ashes were scattered from an aircraft over the
Gove Peninsula in the Northern Territory.
Kathy
was a true sport parachuting pioneer with a professional attitude to
whatever was the task at hand and gained the respect of all who knew
her.
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Mike Henderson
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Visiting
Jumper: Doc first jumped at
Labertouche on February 9th 1974. |
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Suzanne Henderson
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Sue's first jump was made
at Labertouche on ??
She became a regular jumper
and is well remembered because she preferred to jump barefoot until she landed
on some barbed wire hidden in the grass.
Very much part of the
Labertouche core fun jumpers. |
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? Hendry |
Visiting
Jumper: First Jumped at Labertouche
in December 1975. |
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Bob Hepburn |
Visiting
Sydney Jumper: Bob first jumped at
Labertouche on April 29th 1972. |
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Catherine
Herbert
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Visiting
Singapore Jumper:
Catherine
first jumped at Labertouche on the
26th
of January 1968 Chris
Herbert's wife, she was a very competent skydiver.
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Christopher Herbert
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Visiting
Singapore Jumper:
A professional salvage
diver based in Singapore, Chris was the Chief Instructor of the Singapore
Parachute Club and visited Labertouche
in May 1967 and again with a British Army Parachute Team in January 1968.
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Lyne Herron |
Visiting jumper:
Lyne
first jumped at Labertouche on the 5th of January
1967.
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? Hertriono |
Visiting
Indonesian Jumper: First jumped at
Labertouche on December 27th 1975. |
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James Hesson |
Visiting
Jumper: Jim first jumped at Labertouche on
January 23rd 1977 from 8,500ft. |
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Stuart Hestor |
Visiting jumper:
Stuart first jumped at Labertouche on the 12th of October 1967.
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Lisa Hewison |
Lisa's first jump was at
Labertouche on August 23rd 1981. |
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Brian Hewitt |
Visiting
Jumper: Brian's first jump at
Labertouche was on the 31st of July 1966.
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Paul
Hickling |
Visiting
jumper: 1Paul
first jumped at Labertouche on the 10th
of January 1970. |
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Ken
Higgins
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Visiting
Tasmanian jumper: Ken first jumped at
Labertouche on ??/??/??.
Ken
was a Board Member of the Australian Parachute Federation for many years
and was active in the administration of the sport in Tasmania.
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Gahame
Hill
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Then & now |
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Visiting
Sydney Jumper: Hilly first jumped at
Labertouche on the 20th of December 1972.
Practiced for and
jumped in the 13th
Australian Parachute Championships (73/74) at the Centre.
Became the proprietor of Wilton Parachute Centre and built it into the the
biggest parachuting operation in Australia.
A staunch Australian Parachute Federation supporter and first sat on
the APF Board in 1974, the following are some of the positions he held:
Vice
President 1976 to 1997
National
Safety Officer 1974/75, 1978 to 1980
Management
Committee 1985 to 1997
Was Team Leader of the Australian Team at the 19th World Parachute
Championships, Nykoping, Sweden 1988.
Was the organiser of many National Parachuting Championships at Corowa,
NSW
Since
relinquishing his interest in Wilton, has spent his time in honorary
positions in the APF, managing
his investments and flying his hobby aircraft. |
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Graham Hill
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Visiting
Jumper: Graham
first jumped
at Labertouche on ? |
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Greg Hill
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Visiting Pakenham jumper: Greg
first jumped at Labertouche on May 19th 1977 from 8,500ft.
One
of Commando Skydivers stalwart members over the years.
Was Chief Instructor of Commando Skydivers
2006/09 |
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Linda Hill
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Linda first jumped at Labertouche
as an advanced student in 1982 and continued on as a core jumper for some
years. Her
hairdressing skills were always popular if jumping was weathered-out. |
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Tony Hillman
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Then & Retired |
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Tony's
first jump was at Labertouche on November 27th 1966.
Became a dedicated jumper, specialising in instruction. Working for
the Defence Department, he was up-to-date on military advances in the
parachuting field.
Tony
became a Senior Instructor at the Centre and was appointed as the
inaugural APF Director (Instructors) in 1973. He organised the
APF's 2nd
National Instructor Conference at the Melbourne Town House that broke
through the hard attitude of the Department of Civil Aviation.
(2nd & 3rd August 1975)
He
was a regular volunteer worker for the Australian Parachute Federation and
the Victorian State Parachute Council. He was Secretary of the
Victorian Council for some time and spent most evenings working in the APF
Office at Doveton.
Tony
also enjoyed the Display Jumping scene, especially if it were using an
unusual parachute at an unusual venue. He particularly enjoyed
displays in Tasmania, so that he could spend time at the Wrest Point
Casino.
When
he retired from parachuting he spent a lot of time looking after his
sister's children and he died young from kidney problems.
One
of those who gave generously of his time and efforts in support of sport
parachuting.
Died of natural causes. |
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Janine Hills
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See Janine Hayes
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Ken Hills
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1973 and
1999 |
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Visiting Jumper: First jumped at Labertouche on the
31st of December 1972 in the 12th Australian Parachute Championships
with the Gully Cats and it won the
gold medals.
Organised a Parachuting Spectacular at Berwick to raise funds for the
Australian Team "The Gully Cats" to attend the 1st World Cup of Relative
Work at Forth Bragg in North Carolina, USA. He arranged for
the event to be supported by Paul Hogan who had starred in a Winfield
cigarette free fall advertisement with him.
As
a member of "The Gully Cats", represented Australia at the
1st World Cup of Relative Work in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, USA 1973.
As a member of "Joint Effort" represented Australia in
the 1st World Championships of Relative Work Parachuting in Warendorf,
Germany in 1975 and it won the silver medals.
Spent 14 years living in the USA and running a number of dropzones,
mainly Muskogee.
Organised a National US Championships at Tahlequah during his stay.
Returned to Australia in 1987 and
has acted at
many Nationals as ground-to-air cameraman.
Was Team Coach for "Early Openers" Canopy Formation Team when they
won the Gold Medals in 1990 at Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Currently jumping as a Tandem Master at Latrobe Valley Airport in Victoria.
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Bryn Hilman
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Bryn's
first jump was at Labertouche on the 27th of November 1966.
Was a Service Station operator and jumped every weekend at the Centre for a long
time. |
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Mark Hipgrave |
Visiting
Jumper: Mark
first jumped at Labertouche on the 16th of December
1973. |
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Tom Hires |
Ex-Paratrooper, took up sport parachuting at the Centre on the 13th
December 1970. Jumped regularly at the Centre and Wilton until
1972, known to still be jumping in June, 1990 |
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Mark
Hitching |
Visiting
Jumper: Mark first jumped at the Centre on the 23rd of March 1983
from 6,000ft. |
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Dave Hobbs
U
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Visiting
Jumper: Dave
first jumped at Labertouche on the 27th of
March
1970.
Dave
jumped in Papua/New Guinea for many years and was a regular jumper in many
different parts of Australia over the years.
He
represented Australia at the 1st World Cup of Relative Work at Fort Bragg,
North Carolina, USA as a member of the "Gully Cats"
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Tom Hobbs |
Visiting
Jumper: Tom
first jumped at Labertouche on the 25th
of March 1970 |
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John Hoey
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Visiting jumper:
John
first jumped at Labertouche on the 11th of March
1967.
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John Hogan |
Visiting jumper: John
first jumped at Labertouche on June 15th 1974 from 8,500ft
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Paul Hogan |
Visiting jumper:
Paul
first jumped at Labertouche on October 15th 1978.
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Mina
Hoffner |
Mina made her first jump at the Centre on
the 5th of March 1982.
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Steve Holder |
Visiting jumper: Steve
first jumped at Labertouche on October 9th 1977 from 8,500ft.
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P. Hole |
Visiting
Jumper:
First jumped at Labertouche
on the 20th of January
1974.
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Geoffrey Holmes |
Visiting
Jumper: Geoff first jumped at Labertouche on
July 25th 1980. |
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John Holmes |
Visiting
Jumper: John first jumped at Labertouche on
February 22nd 1976 from 6,000ft. |
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Frank Holowzak
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Visiting
Sydney Jumper:
Frank
first jumped at Labertouche on the 15th
of April 1968. Frank was part of the early development of
sport parachuting at Camden, the only Sydney dropzone in the early 60's.
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Steve Holster |
Visiting
Jumper: Steve first jumped at Labertouche on
April 9th 1977 from 6,000ft. |
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Colin Holt
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1970 |
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Colin's first civilian jump
was in England in 1966, his first jump at Labertouche was a link with Marshall Power on the
28th of November 1970.
He enjoyed the
Labertouche jump scene and quickly became a Centre instructor and took
over supervision of the Centre's instructor school from Tony Hillman when
Tony moved on.
Colin
jumped as a member of the 10-Man Speed Star Team "La Cosa Nostra" in the
2nd Australian Relative Work Championships (73/74)
He
competed in the 1995 World Parachutists Over Phorty Meet in Empura Brava,
Spain.
Colin made a major
contribution to Australian parachuting as Chairman of the Victorian APF Instructor Panel. He held regular Instructor Courses both
full time and part time. He was able to combine the best aspects of military
parachuting with best practice of sport coaching to produce a very
effective set of sport parachuting instructor courses.
He served the Australian
Parachute Federation as a Board Member, National Director Instructors,
Area Safety Officer and created the first Area Safety Officer
familiarisation course.
A structural engineer and lives with his
wife Marie in a
southern suburb of Melbourne.
More
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Tony Holtham
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Visiting Pakenham
Jumper: Tony first jumped at Labertouche on February 23rd 1969.
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. He
also visited and jumped at the Centre again in 1977 and 1980.
He
was an early Commando Skydivers jumper and was a leading freefall
cameraman working in the Oz Television Industry on Elvin Purple movie
and TV commercials. From this involvement he moved into a film
lighting business until recently and now is in recreational aviation and
lives on the Gold Coast. |
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Cathy Horgan |
Cathy's first jump was at
Labertouche on the 13th March 1972 and she received her APF "A"
Certificate on the 1st of July 1972. |
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Adrian
Horsborough |
Adrian's first jump was
made at Labertouche on April 1st 1979 ans qualified for his Certificate
"A" in March 1980. |
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Bruce Horsfield |
Visiting jumper:
Bruce
first jumped at Labertouche on the 7th of September
1967.
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Keith
Horsnell |
Visiting jumper:
Keith
first jumped at Labertouche on the 10th
of August 1969. |
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Colin Horton |
Visiting jumper: Colin
first jumped at Labertouche on the 22nd
of December 1968. |
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Matthew Hoskin |
Visiting
Jumper: First jumped at Labertouche
on September 19th 1981 from 8,500ft and again in March/April 1983. |
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Fred Howald |
Visiting
Jumper: Fred first jumped at
Labertouche on December 28th 1975 |
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Ian Howard |
Visiting Jumper:
Ian
first jumped at Labertouche
during the 2nd Australian Relative Work Championships on December 29th
1973. |
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M. Howard |
Visiting
Jumper: Probably first jumped at Labertouche
on the 1st of May 1982 |
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Graham Hoy |
Visiting Jumper:
Graham
first jumped at Labertouche on November 13th 1977 from 8,500ft.
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Geoff Hudson |
Visiting Jumper:
Geoff
first jumped at Labertouche on April 17th 1975 from 8,000ft.
He w as a member of the team "Aces
High" in the 4th Australian Relative Work Championship 10-Man Star
Event. (1975/76) |
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D. Huffam |
Visiting
Jumper:
First jump at Labertouche
was a 30 second delay on the 23rd of January 1966
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Michael Hughes
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Visiting
Jumper: Kimbies first jumped at
Labertouche on May 5th 1980.
Represented Australia
at the 6th World Championships in Relative Work in Mali Losinj, Yugoslavia
(now Slovenia) 1990 and at the 8th World Championships of Relative Work in
Ampuriabrava, Spain 1992. |
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Robert
Hull |
Visiting
Jumper: Bob
jumped at the Centre
in the 13th Australian Parachute Championships (73/74)
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Roger
Hull |
Visiting
Jumper: Roger first jumped at Labertouche on
September 2nd 1978 from 8,500ft. |
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Colin Hunt
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Visiting jumper: Colin
first jumped at Labertouche on January 9th 1974 from 7,000ft.
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Lee Hunt
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Visiting
Jumper: Lee first jumped at Labertouche on
January 22nd 1978 from 8,500ft. It was his 45th jump.
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Andrew Hunter |
Visiting
jumper: Andy first jumped at Labertouche on
December 24th 1975 from 8,000ft. |
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Dave Hunter |
Visiting
Jumper: Dave
first jumped at Labertouche in
May
1967. |
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Geoffrey Hunter
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Foundation
instructor. Geoff was a Southern Cross Skydivers member
that moved to Labertouche with the club.
APF
Instructor Rating No. 6
The
Hunter brothers were very much a part of the pioneer skydiving fraternity.
Served in Vietnam as
a Tracker with the 8th Battalion.
Now lives on the Queensland coast.
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Len Hunter
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Ocean grove |
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Foundation
instructor.
Lennie was Chief Instructor of
Southern
Cross Skydivers when it moved to Labertouche.
He held APF
Instructor Rating No. 35 and Senior Instructor Rating No. 26.
He
was a successful competition jumper and took part in many of the high
profile display jumps with both Southern Cross Skydivers and Eagle
Skydivers.
Lennie
kept the Melbourne skydiving scene rocking with parties in his St. Kilda
apartment. Laurie Trotter being the star performer at these
gatherings.
He
played a central role in the development of sport parachuting in Victoria
before getting married and leaving for the Northern Territory.
Lennie
was an electrician and working for a newspaper in Darwin. He
became ill and recently died. See
the Southern Cross Skydivers page for more of Len's history.
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Peter Hunter |
Visiting
jumper: Probably first jump at
the centre was on March 4th 1982. 14/03/83 25/03/83 |
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Leni Huss
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Visiting
Pakenham jumper: Leni
first jumped at Labertouche
on the 13th of March
1967. |
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Chris Hutter
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Visiting
jumper: Chris first jumped at
Labertouche on March 3rd 1982 from 8,500ft. 11/6/83
Jumpmaster
Course, September 1981 |
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Anne Hyatt |
Visiting
Jumper: Anne first jumped at Labertouche on
January 22nd 1978 from 8,500ft. |
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