Slingsby T.7 Kirby Cadet BGA.246 glider at Sutton Bank.

During August 1938 the Yorkshire Gliding Club undertook glider flying and training for most of the month at their Sutton Bank site as part of their Annual Instruction Camp. Around what must have been the 18th August 1938 the pilot of this glider misjudged their height and was flying too slow while making a turn across the gliding site. The glider bumped the ground and received damage. The date is unclear in the basic club report given in Sailplane and Glider magazine, it stated that this glider had been slightly damaged days earlier when it came to rest upside down on the gliding site and was more seriously damaged in this later incident giving the date for the earlier incident as being what appears to be around 14th August 1938. It then goes on to relate club events dated 21st August 1938. I am making an assumption of the dates based on dates both named pilots were awarded gliding certificates.

The identity of the glider is probably BGA.246 and it was not repaired after this incident. It is also probably the same incident that saw the glider initially strike the top of a wire fence which ran along the summit of the hill, and the wire then ran alongside the steel-shod ski which cut the rear fuselage horizontally in half.

Pilot - Miss Ida Laura Veldhuyzen van Zanten.