Jack’s Career Is About To Take Off
If 16-year-old Jack Christie looks happy, it’s because he’s just completed his first solo glider flight … the start, he hopes, of a long career as an aviator.
If 16-year-old Jack Christie looks happy, it’s because he’s just completed his first solo glider flight … the start, he hopes, of a long career as an aviator.
Farmers in the Booie area were startled on Saturday afternoon when a glider landed in a paddock just off Booie-Crawford Road.
The Queensland State Gliding Championships at Kingaroy Airport wound up on Friday night with a celebration dinner and presentation of awards.
Kingaroy Soaring Club has proven itself to be one of the best gliding clubs in the nation with four of its members being selected to represent Australia at the upcoming world championships to be held in Poland and the Czech Republic.
Two men have died in a gliding crash on the Darling Downs.
After a week of tough competition, the pilots competing in the 2015 Queensland Gliding Championships relaxed and enjoyed dinner on Saturday night at the Kingaroy Soaring Club.
The Kingaroy Soaring Club’s new $180,000 hangar at Kingaroy Airport has been officially opened at a ceremony recognising long-term club member Ian “Aspro” Aspland.
The Queensland Gliding Championships will be taking off at Kingaroy Airport on Saturday.
It’s a fairly common sight to see gliders soaring above Kingaroy Airport, but did you know how far they can travel? Would you believe Victoria?
Kingaroy’s weather may not have been much good for farmers lately, but it’s been almost perfect for gliders and the top-class field of competitors that the 52nd Australian Multiclass Nationals gliding championships brought to town.
The 52nd Multi Class National gliding championships will take off at Kingaroy Airport on Tuesday (October 15).
Kingaroy Soaring Club members have won both classes of the national gliding championships flown at Kingaroy Airport between October 8-19.