Samuel Franklin Cody brushed metal plaque
Farnborough, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
S F Cody 1867-1913 American born Samuel Franklin Cody, the first aviator in Great Britain to make a sustained flight in a powered, heavier-than-air machine. This was on the 16th October 1908 in a British Army Aeroplane no.1A, which he designed, built and flew at Farnborough. He became a national her
o, but was killed when his sixth aircraft broke up in flight one mile west of here. Cody's pioneering work preceded by four years the formation at Farnborough of the Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner
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