Aviation in Britain Before the First World War- the work of Samuel Franklin Cody in Airship, Kite and Aircraft Aeronautics 1903 - 1913 Demonstration of passenger carrying kites designed by S F Cody, with a woman (probably Mrs Lela Cody) suspended from a harness. The kites were designed to be used by the Balloon Section of the Royal Engineers when the strength of the wind (anything above around twenty miles an hour) prevented the use of observation balloons. S F Cody later made the first sustained powered flight in Britain, while his wife Lela became the first woman to fly.

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