Unidentified (primary or secondary?) glider damaged 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 1936. 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. Sailplane and Glider magazine shows a photograph of one of the Hull gliders in the August 1936 issue. On 20th September 1936 it was being flown at Hedon by a female club member when it stalled at around fifty feet above the ground, control was lost and it crashed. The damaged glider was considered to be a complete write-off and was their primary-type glider.
Pilot - Miss Nora Coates. Injured.
A new primary glider was then designed by club member Ronald Coates, then built and was test flown on 4th July 1937 but that then crashed in September 1937. Ronald Coates unfortunately did not see it fly as he died in March 1937. Nora Coates was his sister.