Holdsworth H.2 glider at Baildon Moor.
This glider was a home-built flying machine, constructed locally by Mr Harold Holdsworth. It had been damaged in a flying mishap on 24th April 1932 during a meeting of the Bradford Gliding Club at their flying site near Dobrudden Farm, on Baildon Moor. Mr Holdsworth took the glider back into his workshop and appears to have made a number of modifications to his original glider (his original "H.1" glider then became the "H.2") though the wings appear to have been the only parts to survive. By early-November 1932 it was nearly ready for flying trials and was reported to have had a totally new fuselage and also a new cantilever tail unit. On 4th December 1932 the first trial flights were successfully made at Baildon Moor on the flat. On Sunday, 11th December 1932 a launch was made on an easterly slope at 13.30hrs in a gusty wind but it stalled and cracked a skid on landing. Whether it flew in 1933 has to be researched.
Pilot - Name unknown (probably Harold Holdsworth).