HONORING A FARNBOROUGH `FIRST'
Visitors to Farnborough '02 will have the chance to appreciate the U.K.'s first foray into powered flight. Few realize that the international air show lies on hallowed ground. On Oct. 16, 1908, American-born Col. Samuel F. Cody piloted ``British Army Aeroplane No. 1''--a full 1,390 ft. Ironically...
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