I was saddened to hear of Jacks passing last week, although I never had the pleasure of meeting him personally, some of my fellow club members knew him well.
About 15 years ago I organised the transfer to tape of a 16mm documentary produced in the late fifties. The National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra were kind enough to facilitate this. I then dubbed about 200 copies to VHS (sadly this was before DVD’s) which were distributed to fellow club members at a nominal cost. I have recently digitised this footage from VHS to MPEG 2, and whilst the quality is hardly broadcast it is watchable. The reason I mention all this is that Jack Iggulden briefly appears in the documentary flying a Skylark. The Documentary is rather amusingly (for this day and age) called “Queer Birds” . It offers a fascinating snapshot into Gliding in Australia in the 1950’s. Now that You tube allows video lengths of up to 15 minutes, I have been able to upload it for all to see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgE-vXjGWw0 Should you wish to have a copy for your club or yourself, you can download from you tube using third party providers such as Keepvid.com I hope you enjoy John Parncutt VMFG Melbourne From: aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net [mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net] On Behalf Of Dave Donald Sent: Thursday, 14 October 2010 9:33 AM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Jack Iggulden -the end of an era at age 94 Gliding Queensland has been working on collecting photo's, stories and memorabilia about gliding in Queensland recently. One of our members has been gifted a significant number of photos and stories and has digitised the material and put it up at: http://www.glidingcaboolture.org.au/gq60/sixties_gliding_qld.htm The collection is larger than just Queensland. As Macca and others have said, we fear losing this material if it is not captured in some way. This collection goes a way to ensuring that this type of material lives on forever. If anyone has any material they would like to display or anecdotes to share (and every club has some!) please forward it to me via Gliding Queensland. A big thanks to Max Howland for the material and congratulations to Kevin Rodda for putting it all together. Regards, Dave _____ From: Gary Stevenson <gst...@dodo.com.au> To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. <aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net>; GFA Secretary <secret...@sec.gfa.org.au>; DARYL CONNELL <conne...@speedlink.com.au>; Brett <br...@planetlighting.com>; Dave Boulter <daveboul...@boulterassociates.com.au>; Dave Donald <icans...@y7mail.com>; STO Airworthiness <sto...@sec.gfa.org.au>; Gavin Wills <gwi...@glideomarama.com>; ann...@hwy.com.au Sent: Wed, 13 October, 2010 10:50:27 PM Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Jack Iggulden -the end of an era at age 94 Macca, As you only hint at, there is a huge amount of gliding history encapsulated in your few paragraphs, and I thank you for the information that you have provided - fascinating stuff! There is no doubt that the Igguldens contributed immensely to our sport in its formative days in Australia, and to my thinking it would be a very good idea for the GFA Board to devote considerable effort (and funds), to getting the Iggulden story onto National Television, to the benefit of the gliding movement. A story like theirs is the very stuff that the ABC thrives on, so the idea should not be too difficult to sell! Daryl, are you and the Board up to the challenge? Jack's death provides a key - if you move NOW. Ian, I can say that Jack was indeed a published author. I am certain that all his work is now long out of print. The only book of his that I read (many years ago), was his novel "The Clouded Sky". Although it was long ago, I recall that this was a very powerful work, that was at least the equal of the best work of the famed authors, Neville Shute Norway, and Hammond Innes. Regards, Gary ----- Original Message ----- From: Ian Mc Phee <mailto:mrsoar...@gmail.com> To: Discussion of issues relating to <mailto:aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net> Soaring in Australia. ; GFA Secretary <mailto:secret...@sec.gfa.org.au> ; DARYL CONNELL <mailto:conne...@speedlink.com.au> ; Brett <mailto:br...@planetlighting.com> ; Dave Boulter <mailto:daveboul...@boulterassociates.com.au> ; Dave <mailto:icans...@y7mail.com> Donald ; STO Airworthiness <mailto:sto...@sec.gfa.org.au> ; Gavin Wills <mailto:gwi...@glideomarama.com> ; ann...@hwy.com.au Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 9:56 AM Subject: [Aus-soaring] Jack Iggulden -the end of an era at age 94 John (Jack) Iggulden died at Bellingen friday at the age 94. Jack was proud of the fact he was GFA #1 (think the first life member) and with his late brother Bill Iggulden (died 20+years ago) were responsible for the GFA manual of Standard Proceedures and the GFA instructors manual and while changes have occurred there is still a lot there from those Igguldens. They did a lot of negotiation with Sir Donald Anderson the then head of DCA on behalf of GFA. Their life was gliding. His last flying in gliders was in his beloved ASK14 motorglider. He owned it till about 3 years ago always thinking he would be able to fly again. Mind was still OK buy body was failing. Unfortunately last time I say him was Ben Iggulden's (his nephew Brett's son) wedding about 4 years ago (Tom Iggulden -another son of Brett-was married last weekend who we all see on ABC TV reporting from China most weeks) The Igguldens and the Wills families from UK (Phillip and Justin in UK and Gavin in NZ) always had a close association and always there is still a special place for Lucy Wills in all our lives.(movie "Windborn" or better known as Lucy Learns to fly) My main times with the Iggulden's was at Keepit and Jack and Brett were like father and son. Can always remember Jack landed K14 and said he want to Boggabri and when Brett landed his LS4 I told Brett about Jack going to Boggabri- Then a a ding dong followed with Brett saying "You lying old bastard - you cut the turn point short" Jack responded with "I could see what the marker was behind the silo" To explain before camera verification in comps people would drive to the marker and put a L or X or T marker in close to tall silo and change every say 30min. Pilots would have to write down a time and the marker to prove they turned the marker!! Before being at Bellingen NSW the Igguldens came from Victoria where they did much of the early gliding around Tower Hill I seem to remember. There is old black and whit movie of Jack in a thermal then followed by a bit of a spin - no circuits those days!!!!! Jack spent time in Jail over the Port Phillip Bay development and he supported the greenies in early days around Bellingen. There was also a ABC ABC TV program done on Igguldens in there early days at Bellingen and they added gliding to the end of the program . If you go to dentist or before you go to sleep on operating table in hospital you may well see the label that says "PLANET LIGHTING BELLINGEN NSW " which is family company still going under Brett. Jack had daughter Reberta? (who also flew Libelle) and her children all did gliding at Keepit and do remember at least Graham Reece (Jack's grandson) did many solos. Jack's sister Grace died a few years ago and her husband Fred Hoinville wrote the book "halfway to heaven" (I think the book was written by Grace). There is something about the Olie "the Yellow witch" Jack did make a tape recording at Keepit of his version of history of Aust gliding. I think at some stage Edmund Schneider when he came to Australia lived under on of the Igguldens houses in Melbourne. I do know Jack was also a writer and wrote several books. He lived at "the Promisde Land" behing Bellingen. Funeral is 11am (I think) Thursday in Bellingen area and think a number of gliding types will be there to see the old bugger off. Ian McPhee 0428847642 PS my history may be wrong and I stand to be corrected. (Brett's number 0428268862) _____ _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _____ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.862 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3193 - Release Date: 10/13/10 05:37:00
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