I found this blast from the past movie of gliding at Mt Isa. Two famous old gliders. 

One is a short winged Kookaburra, a classic Australian design that I am sure some of our senior members will have fond memories of. 

I am glad our strip is not this dry! 

Speedy 

http://vimeo.com/7773787 

Yes to the Kookaburra, and my first 23 flights were in ES 49s in 1960 at the Adelaide SC - all winch launch of course. 

My next three were in a Tutor single seater in Ipoh Malaya. Over to JC to upstage that. 

Regards, 

Brian

Well I can and will upstage them both! I first flew a glider solo at age 15 and in 1950 at age 17 won my first open sailplane championship. The trophy was a large silver cup presented to me at Archerfield by an ex Battle of Britain fighter pilot, not that long returned from England. Cannot remember his name. Photographic evidence of my claim is attached. That's me in the middle of the back row. It may be of interest to learn that the photo of members was taken only a little further down the road from where Tony Esler now sits comfortably in his air-conditioned office.  It was a long walk down the deserted dirt road from Strathpine railway station where we used to fly. At the end of a hot summer's day and running out of thermals and perhaps with wrecked aircraft, we would strip off and throw ourselves into the creek, which in those years had some good swimming holes. 

Tony Sorensen