14 Mar 2008
Lennie Hunter, one of sport parachuting's pioneers died from natural causes at the beginning of this month. Lennie and his brother Geoff were involved in our sport before the birth of Relative Work and all the refinements that grew from it. He was a quite achiever in the true sense of the words.
Lennie and his friend Rick Meerkin jumped all over Australia at a time when there were so few jumpers in Australia that it put you in a sub-culture apart from other people; when the word "Wuffo" was used to describe people who did not jump (What for you jump out of airplane?) and there were less than 300 sport jumpers in the whole country.
He spent the later years of his life in Darwin, where he was Secretary of the RSL and had only recently retired from the staff of a local journal. Go to Southern Cross Skydivers page to view his early achievements.
30 Mar 2008
It's nice to see the website up and running again. It previously had a .COM address but the name registration ran out and
as we did not receive any renewal account we did not know about it.
Not being an IT professional, it took months to find out why the content had disappeared from the 'net.
After a few more months trying to find out how to establish the site again, we gave up and decided that the best thing to do was to register the site under a different regime by changing the
.COM to .NET.
The registration was easy but loading the material onto the host site defied our uneducated efforts. After another month or two, Claude remembered that Laurie Leslie (Ian Leslie's brother) had offered to help with the site if we struck any problems.
Laurie was able to get the site up and running but there were still a few problems to overcome. Claude had written the sight in “Front Page”, a Microsoft program but the host server that he registered with operated on non-Microsoft programs called “Unix” and “Apache” and there are a number of technical incompatibilities.
As the registration has a three-year life and a change to a Microsoft compatible host would be rather expensive; Claude is looking for a user-friendly program to continue with the development and maintenance of the site.
One of the problems is the “Guest Book” and we hope to have that corrected soon.
To those of you who have answered the Australian Skydiver Magazine request for info for Claude's history book, thanks a million.
We hope that you appreciate the new look of the site; Laurie and Claude have put a lot of work into it.
30 Mar 2008
We have just gone live on the internet under our .NET domain name.