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Oldest Parachute club?

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The St. Catherines Parachute club was founded in 1948 by Glenn Masterson and continued until 1998 when Mike and Tara Pitt purchased the property and it still continues as Skydive Burnaby.
I think this is the oldest.

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Manawatu Skydiving Club in NZ formed in 1953. The NZ Federation of Parachute Clubs was Incorporated the same year, so there were more than one club, prolly Auckland, Waikato and Christchurch.

Most of the clubs in NZ have either folded or transformed themselves into commercial entities. A lot of what made skydiving special back in the days has gone with this transformation. Instead of a spread of friends around the country, it now seems to be a collection of independant operators competing for dollars and sneakily trying to cut each others throats........
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Manawatu Skydiving Club in NZ formed in 1953. The NZ Federation of Parachute Clubs was Incorporated the same year, so there were more than one club, prolly Auckland, Waikato and Christchurch.

Most of the clubs in NZ have either folded or transformed themselves into commercial entities. A lot of what made skydiving special back in the days has gone with this transformation. Instead of a spread of friends around the country, it now seems to be a collection of independant operators competing for dollars and sneakily trying to cut each others throats........



The commercialisation of skydiving killed the sport.

The deaths under fully open canopies will finish it off.

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the Dnepropetovsk Sport Aviation Club, founded on August 18th 1933, and still in operation.



Good grief. The Russians in the lead by 2 decades or so.
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Some would say Borscht farts at 3000ft.
I say, good vodka. :)


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the Dnepropetovsk Sport Aviation Club, founded on August 18th 1933, and still in operation.



Good grief. The Russians in the lead by 2 decades or so.



Dnepropetovsk is in Ukraine... To the locals, it's a bit like confusing South Africa with Zimbabwe, or the USA with Mexico..

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No, Mexico was never part of the USA. :)
From the somewhat shifting edge of Poland to the Bering Strait, it was "Russia" to us. Soviet Union, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, whatever, in English speaking countries it was often just thought of as Russia, whether everyone in the empire liked the Russian heartland's influence or not.

Hey, we do it with other parts of the world too, like saying "England" for the whole bloody island.

So it sure was 'Russia' at the time of the Dnepropetovsk Sport Club.

I don't know the politics of the time, but I highly doubt that sport club started or was financed solely with local and regional support ... that policy probably came from up high... in Moscow.

Things like that weren't solely a feature of communism. Some western governments provided funding to aero clubs to get people trained in aviation, just in case for some day...

[FWIW, my "Russian" grandmother was born in Odessa.]

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No, Mexico was never part of the USA. :)
From the somewhat shifting edge of Poland to the Bering Strait, it was "Russia" to us. Soviet Union, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, whatever, in English speaking countries it was often just thought of as Russia, whether everyone in the empire liked the Russian heartland's influence or not.

Hey, we do it with other parts of the world too, like saying "England" for the whole bloody island.

So it sure was 'Russia' at the time of the Dnepropetovsk Sport Club.

I don't know the politics of the time, but I highly doubt that sport club started or was financed solely with local and regional support ... that policy probably came from up high... in Moscow.

Things like that weren't solely a feature of communism. Some western governments provided funding to aero clubs to get people trained in aviation, just in case for some day...

[FWIW, my "Russian" grandmother was born in Odessa.]



I stand corrected

If Canadians, Americans and South Africans believe the Ukraine was part of Russia in the 1930's, then I must be wrong.

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