Unidentified glider at Hedon aerodrome.
The Hull Gliding Club was a later continuation of the older Hull Experimental Gliding Club and they used Hedon as their flying site in 1935. Gliders used a car tow launch system to get them into the air and by October 1935 the club owned two gliders, a primary trainer and a secondary-type glider built to the club's own design and construction. On 13th October 1935 the club invited newspaper reporters to offer demonstrations to report on. One of the gliders was initially demonstrated to the press and was then later flown by a different pilot who made his first circuit of the aerodrome. The wind then freshened and became gusty, the first pilot then attempted another flight but on landing the glider came to rest in a fence receiving minor damage. Which glider this was is unclear.
Pilot - Lawson.
Exactly what type of glider this was is not clear. The Hull Experimental Gliding Club had built their own primary glider, known as the Radlock Trainer but by September 1934 I have found a mention of this glider being damaged that saw another being constructed. I have not discovered exactly what was then built. Sailplane and Glider magazine shows a photograph of a Hull glider in the August 1936 issue which was subsequently damaged in a crash in September 1936. If the glider damaged on 13th October 1935 was being used to fly aerodrome circuits it may well have been their secondary type. If it was their secondary type, historian Graham Sharpe has basic information for an incident involving that at Hedon on 7th December 1935 that saw it again damaged.