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• AVIATION IN BRITAIN BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR

  part of "DERA FARNBOROUGH (ROYAL AIRCRAFT ESTABLISHMENT)" (photographs) Made by: Royal Engineers official photographer 1912

  A good view of the Cody aircraft mark IV Monoplane on the ground with a small group of people stood around. Cody built this aircraft specifically for the 1912 military trials. This single engine tractor design, radically different from his previous ones...

• AVIATION IN BRITAIN BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR

  part of "DERA FARNBOROUGH (ROYAL AIRCRAFT ESTABLISHMENT)" (photographs) Made by: Royal Engineers official photographer 1908

  The original Nulli Secundus airship in flight. It was in Nulli Secundus that Cody and Colonel Capper of the Balloon School at Aldershot made their record breaking flight from Farnborough to London The journey of 40 miles took three hours twenty five...

• AVIATION IN BRITAIN BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR

  part of "DERA FARNBOROUGH (ROYAL AIRCRAFT ESTABLISHMENT)" (photographs) Made by: Royal Engineers official photographer 1909

  A good clear shot of Cody aircraft mark IB in flight close to the ground with streamers and Union Jack trailing behind. This version of the mark IB does not have the additional elevators fitted next to the main central elevator instead balancing planes...

• AVIATION IN BRITAIN BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR: THE WORK OF SAMUEL FRANKLIN CODY IN AIRSHIP, KITE AND AIRCRAFT AERONAUTICS 1903 - 1913

  part of "DERA FARNBOROUGH (ROYAL AIRCRAFT ESTABLISHMENT)" (photographs) Made by: Royal Engineers official photographer 1913-08-07

  The wreckage of Cody Aircraft Mark VIA at Laffan's Plain near Aldershot. The aircraft broke up in mid air and crashed, killing S F Cody and his passenger, W H B Evans (captain of the Hampshire Cricket Club) instantly. The Cody Aircraft Mark VI was the...

• AVIATION IN BRITAIN BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR

  part of "DERA FARNBOROUGH (ROYAL AIRCRAFT ESTABLISHMENT)" (photographs) Made by: Royal Engineers official photographer 1912

  Cody aircraft mark V undergoing a strength test in the shed by being hung upside down and having small bags of sand on the lower wing and what appear to be shot bags on the upper wing. Note the rudders have been folded back so they are at the wingtips....

• AVIATION IN BRITAIN BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR

  part of "DERA FARNBOROUGH (ROYAL AIRCRAFT ESTABLISHMENT)" (photographs) Made by: Royal Engineers official photographer 1913-08-07

  A general view of the wreckage of Cody aircraft mark VIA with military and civilian bystanders. Cody and his passenger W H B Evans, captain of the Hampshire Cricket Club, were both thrown out of the aircraft from about 300 feet when the accident happened...

• AVIATION IN BRITAIN BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR

  part of "DERA FARNBOROUGH (ROYAL AIRCRAFT ESTABLISHMENT)" (photographs) Made by: Royal Engineers official photographer 1913

  A close up of Cody wearing his flying helmet in the cockpit of the Cody aircraft mark V. Note that the cockpit is not covered unlike any of the other photographs of this aircraft. The second seat can just be seen behind Cody. With the help of his family...

• AVIATION IN BRITAIN BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR: THE WORK OF SAMUEL FRANKLIN CODY IN AIRSHIP, KITE AND AIRCRAFT AERONAUTICS 1903 - 1913

  part of "DERA FARNBOROUGH (ROYAL AIRCRAFT ESTABLISHMENT)" (photographs) Made by: Royal Engineers official photographer 1908

  S F Cody demonstrates one of his kite designs to the Royal Navy. He is suspended in a breeches buoy attached to a carrier kite 20 - 30 feet up from the deck of the battleship HMS REVENGE. In the middle distance is a destroyer, possibly HMS RECRUIT....

• AVIATION IN BRITAIN BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR

  part of "DERA FARNBOROUGH (ROYAL AIRCRAFT ESTABLISHMENT)" (photographs) Made by: Royal Engineers official photographer 1909-09-27

  An excellent medium close up of Cody wearing thick flying clothing aboard Cody aircraft mark IC (Cathedral - so named because of it's size and the size of the hangar it required and the katahedral (lower at the wing tips) arrangement of the wings) with...

• AVIATION IN BRITAIN BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR

  part of "DERA FARNBOROUGH (ROYAL AIRCRAFT ESTABLISHMENT)" (photographs) Made by: Royal Engineers official photographer 1912

  A good view of the Cody aircraft mark IV Monoplane on the ground with a small group of people stood around. Cody built this aircraft specifically for the 1912 military trials. This single engine tractor design, radically different from his previous ones...