Photo Gallery

1972

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These photos were taken by Arthur Duke some time between April and June 1972 when Geoff McBroom and his team were flying from Forester Hill (Google Earth coordinates 51deg 42' 2.30" N -2deg 18' 12.20" W). and a time when they were all quite proficient. Having first flown earlier in the year.

 

Dave Watts flying at Ditchling some time during the summer of 1972

This photo is also displayed on the Southern Hang Gliding web site

Photo by kind permission of Dave Watts and the Southern Hang Gliding Club

 

Robin Haynes flying the very first 'A' named hang glider from Box Hill August 1972

Photo from Terry Haynes

 

3rd September 1972

The Southdown Gliding Club hosted their 50th anniversary of the 1922 Itford first meeting at Firle Beacon. Geoff McBroom demonstrated 2 of his hang gliders.

Photo from Tony Prentice

 

3rd September 1972

The Southdown Gliding Club hosted their 50th anniversary of the 1922 Itford first meeting at Firle Beacon. Tony Prentice demonstrated his Bamboo hang gliders.

Photo from Tony Prentice

 

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An article in the London Evening Standard December 1978 about the Haynes brothers first flight in 1972

From Terry Haynes

 

Gerry Breen flying his first home made polythene & scaffold tube hang glider

Taken at White Horse Hill near Wantage November 1972

Photo taken from Gerry's web site

 

Justin Wills about to take off sometime during 1972.

This is the first photo of a Hang Glider in the UK with a king post. It was not until 1974 that Geoff McBroom made a public recommendation that all hang gliders should have a King Post.

Both photo and article about Justine were mentioned in the December 1972 / January 1973 'Sailplane & Gliding' magazine

Photo taken by Philip Wills

 

Nick Regan takes his first flight in early November 1972 in Farnham Park.

Photo from Jason Board and the British Hang Gliding Museum

 

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