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.