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Farnborough Branch presents Cody maquette to Hamilton Place

机译：法恩伯勒分行向汉密尔顿广场赠送科迪假人

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At Farnborough on 16 October 1908, Samuel F Cody achieved the first sustained flight of a powered heavier-than-air aircraft in the United Kingdom. Taking off from a point close to the then Army Balloon factory, he flew for a total of 460 yards before colliding heavily with the ground while veering to avoid a group of trees. Over the following five years he continued to develop and refine the design of his aircraft, perfect the art of controlling it in flight and greatly extend flight duration until, in 1913, like many other early aviators, he was killed in a flying accident caused by a major structural failure. In 2013, to mark the centenary of his death, a life-size statue of Cody, funded by donations from individuals and local organisations, was created by sculptor Vivien Malloch and installed at the entrance to the Farnborough Air Sciences Trust Museum, close to where the historic first flight took place. Meanwhile, in 1909, the Society had awarded him its Silver Medal in recognition of his achievements to that point. Other than this, to date there had been no visible recognition in Society headquarters of this major pioneer of British aviation and our first pilot. The Farnborough Branch of the Society felt that a fitting way of remedying this would be to purchase the sculptor's 'maquette' model of the iconic full-size statue, using funds raised from within the Branch, and present it to the Society for permanent display in a prominent position at Hamilton Place. On 16 October 2017 (appropriately on the 109th anniversary of the first flight), the maquette was formally presented to the Society by Sir Donald Spiers, President of Farnborough Branch, immediately preceding the 2017 Lanchester Lecture. It was received on behalf of the Society by Professor Chris Atkin, immediate Past President, and after the lecture was duly placed in its new home, on the mantelshelf in the Foyer to the Bill Boeing Lecture Theatre at No.4 Hamilton Place.
机译：1908年10月16日，塞缪尔·科迪（Samuel F Cody）在范堡罗（Famborough）实现了联合动力式重于空中飞机的首次持续飞行。他从当时的陆军气球工厂附近起飞，飞了总共460码，然后猛烈撞向地面，同时转向避开树木。在接下来的五年中，他继续开发和改进飞机的设计，完善其在飞行中的控制艺术，并大大延长了飞行时间，直到1913年，与许多其他早期飞行员一样，他在一次飞行事故中丧生，原因是重大的结构故障。 2013年，为了纪念他的百年诞辰，雕塑家维维恩·马洛赫（Vivien Malloch）创作了由个人和当地组织捐赠的真人大小的科迪雕像，并将其安装在范堡罗航空科学信托博物馆的入口附近，历史性的第一次飞行发生了。同时，在1909年，学会授予他银奖，以表彰他在这一点上的成就。除此之外，迄今为止，英国航空的这一主要先驱和我们的第一位飞行员在学会总部还没有明显的认可。该学会的法恩伯勒分会认为，解决该问题的合适方法是，使用该分会内部募集的资金购买雕刻家的全尺寸雕像的“模型”模型，并将其展示给该学会，以永久地展示在在汉密尔顿广场的重要位置。 2017年10月16日（大约在第一次飞行的109周年纪念日），紧接2017年兰切斯特演讲会之前，范堡罗分公司总裁唐纳德·斯皮尔斯爵士正式向社会公会赠送了该模型。前任总裁克里斯·阿特金（Chris Atkin）教授代表学会接受了演讲，演讲被适当地安置在新家中后，在汉密尔顿广场4号的比尔波音演讲厅的门厅壁炉架上。

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