Samuel Franklin Cody (born Cowdery) was born 150 years ago today, on 06-March-1867. Cody was an American emigree who built and flew British Army Aeroplane Number 1 in 1908. This shows him with his wife, Maud Maria Cody. She does not look comfortable.Cody died while testing a floatplane of his own design on 07-August-1913.
The image comes from a wonderful resource, all issues of Flight magazine from 1909 to 2005:
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/index.html
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