Kassel Professor (?) at Stoupe Brow, Ravenscar.

On the weekend of 23rd and 24th August 1930 the Scarborough Gliding Club arranged a meeting at Ravenscar, the mishap at Scarborough some weeks previously, again arranged by the Club did not go to plan and Magersuppe was keen to prove the new sport to his critics. Flying had taken place at Stoupe Brow for a few weeks to prove it was a suitable place to be using. Flying on the Saturday of the meet was limited because of fog, test flights were carried out but no demonstrations given. Sunday came with more favourable conditions, and infront of 2000 people, flights in the morning took place. The flights in the afternoon saw two mishaps, in this incident, the pilot was catapult launched but could not get lift. The machine came down but struck a rock hidden in the heather damaging the undercarriage. The damage prevented the machine from being used any further on this day. Repairs where carried out and soaring took place on the Monday. Following this damage, the Scarborough clubs "Zogling" was then used and a number of flights took place before it too was damaged late in the afternoon.

Pilot - Herr Carli Magersuppe, ok.

Flights would later be carried out at the same location in the weeks after this mishap and would later fly from here to Scarborough in the machine


A Halifax would later crash at Stoupe Brow in 1944 with the loss of all aircrew on board, this is detailed on the 1944 section to the North Yorkshire Moors section to this website.