Aviation in Britain Before the First World War- the work of Samuel Franklin Cody in Airship, Kite and Aircraft Aeronautics 1903 - 1913 S F Cody discussing an aspect of the Cody Aircraft Mark IC (nicknamed the Cathedral) on Laffan's Plain near Aldershot with Colonel J E Capper, Superintendant of the British Army Balloon Factory and Balloon School. This photograph was taken on the day before Capper joined Cody on a flight in the Mark IC, thus becoming the first passenger to be carried by an aircraft in Britain. Colonel Capper was instrumental in the War Office appointment as Chief Kite Instructo
Aviation in Britain Before the First World War- the work of Samuel Franklin Cody in Airship, Kite and Aircraft Aeronautics 1903 - 1913 S F Cody discussing an aspect of the Cody Aircraft Mark IC (nicknamed the Cathedral) on Laffan's Plain near Aldershot with Colonel J E Capper, Superintendant of the British Army Balloon Factory and Balloon School. This photograph was taken on the day before Capper joined Cody on a flight in the Mark IC, thus becoming the first passenger to be carried by an aircraft in Britain. Colonel Capper was instrumental in the War Office appointment as Chief Kite Instructor at the Briotish Army Balloon Factory at Farnborough in Hampshire. Their relationship was not without difficulties, partly because of Capper's preference for airships over aircraft and his support of Cody's rival, John Dunne, and partly because of Cody's non military
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