HFC 60th Anniversary Video Series Part 10 - A place for WSC & HFC to call home.

As part of the 60th Anniversary of the Horsham Flying Club, originally formed as the Wimmera Soaring Club in 1963 we are releasing a series of videos on the history of the club. Part 10 - A place for WSC & HFC to call home. Every gliding club needs a place to call home. Over the 60 years that the Horsham Flying Club has been in existence, first as the Wimmera Soaring Club and now as the Horsham Flying Club we have had six different operational sites. This video in our anniversary series looks at the different place the club has called home.

HFC 60th Anniversary Video Series Part 9 - A private ES-60 Boomerang joins the club

As part of the 60th Anniversary of the Horsham Flying Club, originally formed as the Wimmera Soaring Club in 1963 we are releasing a series of videos on the history of the club. 

Part 9 - A private ES-60 Boomerang joins the club

A private owner syndicate is formed and buys a single seat ES-60 Boomerang.

The Nymph had come on-line as the clubs first single seat glider to provide pilots with a progression path to a glider with higher performance than the T-31. But there were a growing number of members wanting to fly the Nymph and it wouldn’t always be available when they wanted it.

 A group of seven members decided to buy their own glider and formed a syndicate in early 1965. Tommy Thompson, Leon Rigetti, Max Hedt, Steve McFarlane, Peter McKee and Wally Rentch pooled funds to order and purchase one of the then new Schneider ES-60 Boomerang gliders.

HFC 60th Anniversary Video Series Part 8 - The Kookaburra does a back flip

As part of the 60th Anniversary of the Horsham Flying Club, originally formed as the Wimmera Soaring Club in 1963 we are releasing a series of videos on the history of the club. 

Part 8 - The Kookaburra does a back flip

Peter Kelly in a 2013 interview talks about when the Kookaburra while being ground handled in the 1970s was picked up by a passing thermal and flipped onto its back. 

HFC 60th Anniversary Video Series Part 7 - ES-52 Kookaburra at Wimmera Soaring Club

As part of the 60th Anniversary of the Horsham Flying Club, originally formed as the Wimmera Soaring Club in 1963 we are releasing a series of videos on the history of the club. 

Part 7 - ES-52 Kookaburra at Wimmera Soaring Club

To continue our 60th Anniversary video series, this time we are look at the introduction of the Edmund Schneider designed ES-52 Kookaburra. The club finally got the the seater it originally wanted, but couldn't obtain nor at first afford.

HFC 60th Anniversary Video Series Part 6 - Max Hedt on early operations of the WSC

As part of the 60th Anniversary of the Horsham Flying Club, originally formed as the Wimmera Soaring Club in 1963 we are releasing a series of videos on the history of the club. Part 6 - Max Hedt talks about early operations of the WSC

Another of our 60th Anniversary videos. This time an interview with founding member, Max Hedt. Thursday 20 July 2023 is 60 years on from when the the Wimmera Soaring Club made the first flight of their T31b glider from Nhill Aerodrome to Horsham with an outlanding at Dimboola on the way. In this 2013 interview Max Hedt talks about the early weeks of flying operations alongside Curran Road at Horsham. The interview was filmed outside and is subject to wind noise and the sound of passing cars.

HFC 60th Anniversary Video Series Part 5 - The Winch

As part of the 60th Anniversary of the Horsham Flying Club, originally formed as the Wimmera Soaring Club in 1963 we are releasing a series of videos on the history of the club. Part 5 - Winch launching at the Wimmera Soaring Club

We've put together another 60th anniversary video, this time we are looking at the development and use of the two club winches from 1963 to 1967.

HFC 60th Anniversary Video Series Part 4 - The Tiger Moth

As part of the 60th Anniversary of the Horsham Flying Club, originally formed as the Wimmera Soaring Club in 1963 we are releasing a series of videos on the history of the club. Part 4 - The club's tug the De Havilland DH82A Tiger Moth, VH-WAL

Another short video in our 60th Anniversary Series. This time we are looking at the club's first glider tug, a De Havilland Tiger Moth and the unusual way it came to the then Wimmera Soaring Club

HFC 60th Anniversary Video Series Part 3 - The Nymph

As part of the 60th Anniversary of the Horsham Flying Club, originally formed as the Wimmera Soaring Club in 1963 we are releasing a series of videos on the history of the club. 

Part 3 - The club's second glider the ES-56 Nymph 

Another 60th Anniversary video, this time we're looking at the club's second glider. The ES-56 Nymph, a design of Edmund Schneider built in South Australia. The club's Nymph was one of only four built. One remains flying today.

HFC 60th Anniversary Video Series Part 2 - The T31

As part of the 60th Anniversary of the Horsham Flying Club, originally formed as the Wimmera Soaring Club in 1963 we are releasing a series of videos on the history of the club. 

Part 2 - T31 for Wimmera Soaring Club. 

Now that the club had been formed, it needed something to fly. After an initial search for a suitable two seater they found a syndicate in New South Wales with a Slingsby T31b for sale. It was purchased and brought into service in July 1963.

 

HFC 60th Anniversary Video Series Part 1 - Andrew Balsillie & the Yellow Kestrel

As part of the 60th Anniversary of the Horsham Flying Club, originally formed as the Wimmera Soaring Club in 1963 we are releasing a series of videos on the history of the club. 

Part 1 - Horsham had a gliding club before 1963 

Horsham has a gliding history that predates the formation of the club in 1963. This video goes back to the late 1930s when local projectionist Andrew Balsillie helped form a local gliding club while building his own glider in his back yard.