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	Samuel Cody Information
		Samuel Franklin Cody (1867 - August 7 1913) was an early pioneer of manned flight, most famous for his work on the large kites known as Cody War-Kites that were used in World War I as a smaller alternative to balloons for artillery spotting.
		Cody's early life is difficult to separate from his own stories told later in life, but it appears he was born Franklin Cowdery in Davenport, Iowa in 1867.
		Cody was charged with the formation of two kite sections of the Royal Engineers.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Samuel_Cody (1056 words)

	Ash Vale & Aldershot site for local and British & Canadian military history
		Cody claimed to have been born in a Texan cow-town called Birdville in 1861 when his birthplace was actually the city of Davenport, Iowa, and the year 1867.
		For the next five years the Cody family led a peripatetic life, putting on Wild West performances as their stock-in-trade while the famous horseman continued to issue challenges to all and sundry, from long-distance runners to tandem cyclists, most of which he won.
		Cody's death at 46 was 'swift and sudden' and in one of his own aeroplanes, as he had always wished.
	www.ash-vale.co.uk /s_cody.html (2211 words)

	Samuel Cody in the Aviation History Encyclopedia
		Samuel Franklin Cody (1867 - 1913) was an early pioneer of manned flight, most famous for his work on large kites known as the Cody War-Kite that were used in World War I as a smaller alternative to balloons for artillery spotting.
		Cody's early life is difficult to separate from his own stories told later in life, but it appears he was born Franklin Cowdery in Davenport, Iowa in 1867.
		Cody carried passengers for the first time in the world on August 14th, 1909, first his old workmate Col. Capper, and then Lela Cody, the first woman to fly.
	www.usairnet.com /encyclopedia/Samuel_Cody.html (1037 words)

	PBS - THE WEST - William F. Cody
		All the while Cody was earning a reputation for skill and bravery in real life, he was also becoming a national folk hero, thanks to the exploits of his alter ego, "Buffalo Bill," in the dime novels of Ned Buntline (pen name of the writer E. Judson).
		In 1872 Buntline persuaded Cody to assume this role on stage by starring in his play, The Scouts of the Plains, and though Cody was never a polished actor, he proved a natural showman, winning enthusiastic applause for his good-humored self-portrayal.
		Cody died on January 10, 1917, and is buried in a tomb blasted from solid rock at the summit of Lookout Mountain near Denver, Colorado.
	www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/people/a_c/cody.htm (904 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Samuel Franklin Cody - Pioneer of British Aviation
		Samuel Franklin Cody is recognised as the first Englishman to have achieved sustained powered flight, and is thus to England what the Wright Brothers are to the United States.
		Cody's glider kites were first flown at Crystal Palace and in the summer of 1905 he made his longest glide of some 225 metres (740 feet) with a drop of 107 metres (350 feet).
		Cody is known as the 'father of British aviation', and was awarded the silver medal by the Royal Aeronautical Society for his services to aeronautics.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A10358796 (1587 words)

	Samuel Cody - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Samuel Franklin Cody (1867 - August 7, 1913) was an early pioneer of manned flight, most famous for his work on the large kites known as Cody War-Kites that were used in World War I as a smaller alternative to balloons for artillery spotting.
		The grave of Samuel Franklin Cody in Aldershot Military Cemetery.
		Adjacent to Cody's own grave marker is a memorial to his youngest son, Samuel Franklin Leslie Cody, who joined the Royal Flying Corps and 'fell in action fighting four enemy machines' in 1917.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samuel_Cody (1079 words)

	Samuel Franklin Cody and kites
		Cody was born in the state of Iowa in the United States of America in 1867.
		Samuel Cody dressed in a very similar way to his hero, he wore a stetson, buckskins and cowboy boots.
		Cody also began to share his son's fascination with kites and the two of them competed to make the largest kites capable of flying at ever increasing heights.
	www.design-technology.org /cody.htm (481 words)

	Cody Manlifting(en) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		All the Cody's have unit size 90 cm, apart from the carrierkite, which is a Cody with unit size 120 cm.
		Cody was born on march 6, 1867 in Davenport, Iowa and not 1861 in Birdville, Texas as various sources mention; In 1870 he was registered as Franklin Cowdrey.
		Soon Cody got involved in aviation too: in 1908 he was the first man in England who built an flew an airplane.
	www.windkrachtgroningen.nl /emanlifting.html (738 words)

	The Drachen Foundation: A Non-Profit Kite Education Resource—Research Roberts
		Roberts learned early on in her research that Samuel Franklin Cody was not Cody's real name and that he was not born in Birdsville, Texas, as he claimed.
		Although Cody's clever use of publicity assured that his life in England was well documented, his doings from the time he was thirteen until he became twenty-two are a blank to Roberts.
		Cody himself told tales of varied exploits in the raw west of America as a youth, but they remain undocumented and, based on Cody's subsequent show business romanticizing, suspect as to accuracy.
	www.drachen.org /research_roberts.html (1340 words)

	The Pioneers : An Anthology : Samuel Franklin Cody (Franklin Samuel Cowdery), (1867-1913)
		Cody proposed to the War Office that in a military situation the passenger be equipped with a telescope, telephone, camera and gun.
		Cody's 1909 plane became known as 'The Flying Cathedral' because of the French term katahedral referring to the curvature of the biplanes wings The Mk II Cathedral was originally fitted with two engines but these proved to be unsuccessful so Cody used just one engine instead.
		Cody had been separated from a woman he married while touring with a Wild West show in America, and Blackburne Davis was married to a Chelsea publican with whom she had five children.
	www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/cody.html (11865 words)

	The Flying Cowboy
		Cody’s ability to hang onto the upper branches of the tree is said to have saved his life.
		Cody was granted Officer status with the post of Chief Kite Instructor to the British Army at Farnborough, where his duties included the design and manufacture of kites, as well as giving instruction in the operation of these contraptions.
		Cody’s curiosity, courage and enthusiasm inevitably led him to experiment with powered flight, and in October of 1908 he became the first man to build and fly an aeroplane in Britain.
	home1.gte.net /~vze26db3/Miscellaneous/SFCody.htm (1817 words)

	UNC-TV:Mystery Of Flight
		This was the basic Cody 'bat' kite, of which there are many variations, considered to be one of the most beautiful kites ever designed.
		Cody's original aim was to provide a man-lifting system for observation purposes during the Boer War in South Africa, an idea later taken up by the British military.
		Cody continued to experiment with aircraft until 1913, when he was killed in a crash over Laffan's Plain.
	www.unctv.org /firstflight/SamuelCody.html (202 words)

	Samuel Franklin Cody -Kites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Around this period Cody and his family would be found performing their play 'The Klondyke Nugget' in theatres in the evening and during the day giving kite exhibitions, cleverly providing publicity for both ventures.
		When performing in Glasgow, Cody resorted to perching on the roof of the theatre in order to shout instructions to his assistants on the ground who were flying his kites, and to explain to the bewildered crowd watching from below the principles of his invention.
		At the start of the Boer War, Cody conceived the idea of using his kites for military observation purposes as an alternative to captive balloons which, unlike kites, could not be deployed in strong winds.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /cody/kites1.htm (1038 words)

	Samual Franklin Cody - Kite flyer and aviator.
		Cody, however, made no strike, and after a few years spent touring America with a Wild West show, where he was billed as 'Captain Cody, King of the Cowboys', he eventually settled in England in 1890.
		Cody's son Leon was a keen kite flyer, and father and son competed with ever larger kites, capable of ever increasing heights.
		Cody's courage and enthusiasm led him on to experiment with powered flight, and in October 1908 he became the first man to build and fly an aeroplane in Britain.
	wuff.me.uk /cody/P2.html (1005 words)

	Samuel Franklin Cody - Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Over a period of several years Cody developed a deep interest in kite flying and his success in the theatre provided the finance to progress this interest from a hobby to an aerial system of great practical value.
		Cody must have felt greatly restrained by the Army's rules and regulations and for their part, the Army must have found it difficult to accept this flamboyant American who, although now severed from the theatrical life, still retained the appearance of a showman.
		Doubt over Cody's surname plus the fact that Birdville could find no trace of a Cody family for the correct period led me to embark on many years of research until it came to light that S.F.Cody's real surname was Cowdery, his birthplace was Davenport, Iowa and his date of birth 1867.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /cody/intro.htm (873 words)

	Price Compare ISBN 0375811060 Rider in the Sky: How an American Cowboy Built England's First Airplane by John R. Hulls ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Samuel Cody grew up on the Western frontier: as a young boy he was fascinated with kites and years later in England re-discovered his passion for them, eventually joining the ranks of the Wright Brothers and other early pioneer flyers.
		Cody and the Wright brothers became more than just clever engineers, they were ingenious and daring pioneers who put their own lives on the line, rising hundreds of feet in the air supported by nothing more than bamboo and canvas.
		Cody's madcap adventures (cow hand, gold miner, variety show creator, Royal Aeronotical Society member, etc..) would make a wild story in any age, but are particularly resonant on the brink of the centennial of flight.
	www.directtextbook.com /prices/0375811060 (844 words)

	Design and Technology and vehicles pulled by kites
		Samuel Cody is not to be confused with William Frederick Cody (1846-1917), known as Buffalo Bill, born in Iowa.
		Samuel Cody continued with his Wild West showmanship and toured the music halls of England performing his horse riding, lassoing and shooting skills but his real passion was flight and in particular kites.
		Cody's interests in kites began as a hobby but very soon Cody had designed, made and patented a man-lifting kite, which he demonstrated to the War office in 1901.
	www.design-technology.org /kite9.htm (441 words)

	Anne Quéméré - Samuel Cody
		It is the famous captain Cody, the ex-king of the Cow-boys, who is the inventor of this strange process which was tried during the winter of 1903, when he crossed the English Channel in a Berthon collapsible boat.
		On November 10, Cody arrived on the beach at Dover to attempt the crossing but found the wind was blowing in the wrong direction.
		It was covered with fabric so that water could not enter, and had a hole in the middle, large enough for Cody to fit in.
	www.anne-quemere.com /gb_cody.php (385 words)

	RIDER IN THE SKY: HOW AN AMERICAN COWBOY BUILT ENGLAND'S FIRST AIRPLANE: Aviation Book Reviews: Wings Over Kansas
		Samuel F. Cody was as colorful as the Wrights were quiet, and in author Hulls adroit hands, the story of his exploits add a new and vibrant chapter to early aviation.
		Samuel Cody prospected for gold in Alaska and busted broncos in San Antonio, but it was in a buckskin-fringed jacket that he earned a living while traveling in Europe, engaging in races and marksmanship contests.
		Cody's experience in flying the man-carrying gliders led him to believe that an engine could be substituted for the pull of the kite cable, and that his basic kite configuration could be made to fly.
	www.wingsoverkansas.com /books/article.asp?id=619 (1124 words)

	Cody
		On the morning of October 16, 1908, near Farnborough, Cody flew it a quarter mile in what is recognized as the first powered sustained flight in Britain.
		Cody is to England what the Wright brothers are to the United States.
		Known as the father of British aviation, Cody was awarded the silver medal by the Aeronautical Society for his services to aeronautics.
	www.xgc.com /misc/cody.htm (242 words)

	First Flight
		Samuel Cody, a US citizen, built the British Army Aeroplane No. 1 in 1908 and flew it on three occasions at Farnborough in that year.
		Cody's canard biplane did not contribute technically to aviation, but was significant in maintaining a public and military interest in flying.
		This has been taken to be the first powered flight made in England, although Phillips had made a short hop in 1904, and a longer hop of 500 feet in 1907.
	firstflight.open.ac.uk /cody/cody.html (193 words)

	Science Museum - History of Flight - Cody Biplane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Samuel Franklin Cody made the first powered flight in England on 16 October 1908 in his British Army Aeroplane No 1.
		Cody, a former cowboy and gold prospector, came from the USA to Britain in 1889 and set up a Wild West show.
		Cody's sole remaining aircraft, the Military Trials Biplane of 1912, is displayed in the Museum.
	www.sciencemuseum.org.uk /on-line/flight/flight/cody.asp (108 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Franklin Samuel Cowdery, who adopted the name Samuel Franklin Cody, was born in Davenport, Iowa, on March 6, 1867, the fourth of five children born to Samuel Franklin Cowdery Sr.
		Whatever the truth, in 1899 Cody began to give serious thought to a purpose for kites to be used for military observation and meteorology.
		Cody used these kites in his own meteorological research and was made a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society for his contributions in this field.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/CC/fcoac.html (1051 words)

	Samuel Cody's Kites - Aldershot Military Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cody began experimenting with man-lifting kites and by 1901 he had offered his inventions to the British War Office.
		In June 1904 Cody came to Aldershot to test his kites, in collaboration with the Army where he was temporarily on a salary of £1000 per year and expenses at the rate of lieutenant.
		Cody spent many hours testing his aircraft over the skies of Farnborough whilst large crowds gathered to watch him.
	www.hants.gov.uk /museum/aldershot/cody/kites.html (245 words)

	Gliding Magazine \| Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cody and his sons built a powered airship in which they buzzed Buckingham Palace and the War Office, then developed a “hang glider” kite, finally Army Aeroplane #1.
		Samuel Cody and the Wrights were the only ones who had more than brief seconds in heavier-than-air flight, the Wrights with their gliders, Cody with his kites and glider and hours of taxiing tests.
		Among Cody’s inventions: the variable-pitch propeller, whose efficiency Cody tested by tethering his airplane to a tree at Farnborough, a flight-test locale that became, decades earlier, the British equivalent of Edwards Air Force Base.
	www.glidingmagazine.com /reviewdetail.asp?id=59 (830 words)

	Kite Aerial Photography Electronic Resources--Cody-KAPER
		The Cody gets its name from Samuel Cody, a pioneer in "heavy lifting" kites during the early 1900's in England.
		A Cody used for KAP today will be five feet to eight feet across (1.5m to 2.4m).
		At the low end of this Cody's wind range it produces a pull that is easily greater than its weight.
	www.fortunecity.com /marina/nelson/479/cody_R.html (263 words)

	Publication Abstracts- Aerospace Medical Association
		At Farnborough, "Colonel" Samuel F. Cody, originally a horseman, hunter, crack shot, showman and theatrical impresario from the USA, was preparing a new floatplane for a round Britain flying race.
		One of the features of the floatplane, a biplane with a four bladed pusher propeller, was that it had already demonstrated its ability to carry passengers.
		Cody calculated that it would allow him to carry five passengers for a 4-h flight and may even have medical uses.
	www.asma.org /journal/abstracts/v70n6/v70n6p612.html (230 words)

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