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£450
Of Colonel Cody aviation interest; a piece of fabric taken from the fatal crash on 7th August 1913, when Cody was test flying his latest design, the Cody Floatplane. Written on and sent by Lance Corporal A. Slack of the 2nd Worcester Regiment, who attended the scene, to Miss Florence Jones, our vendors grandmother. 19 x 14cm.
The aircraft broke up at 200 feet and Cody and his passenger, the cricketer William Evans, were killed at Ball Hill, Laffans Plain, Cove Common near Farnborough. His flight of 16 October 1908 is recognised as the first official flight of a piloted heavier-than-air machine in Great Britain.
Cpl Albert Slack died in France on the 13th August 1915.
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