Samual Cody

The Devon was XA879, which was on the dump and had its wings removed as a make shift plug on 23/9/68. There is a photo in ‘forever Farnborough’ by Peter Cooper but I am not sure of it’s exact location.

Thanks for that Rob, I wonder how much of it survives under the soil and how much they stripped out before dumping it? Unfortunatly I don’t have that book, I wonder if anyone has a photo they could post? Now were’s that shovel gone! 😀

The SBAC show flood was 15/09/68. I didn’t know there was a Devon buried there, how long will it be before were excavating the site to see if anything remains of it? The canal is actually The Basingstoke Canal and was once owned by my great grandfathers brother Alec. For more info see –

www.basingstoke-canal.org.uk

The Devon was XA879, which was on the dump and had its wings removed as a make shift plug on 23/9/68. There is a photo in ‘forever Farnborough’ by Peter Cooper but I am not sure of it’s exact location.

If I visit then, I’ll be sure to leave my handbag at home

Good Idea 😀 😀 Anna

The canal has been tidied up a great deal, I walked from the Flash to the Airbourne Forces Museum, that also is very interesting!! But you have to go through Army check points as it is an active base, No handbags or Cameras are permitted 😉 Anna

If I visit then, I’ll be sure to leave my handbag at home

What became of the Cody Tree Memorial that was to the Left of the main gate into the RAE, in front of the large black shed??? Anna :confused:

We have a place off of I-70 into the mountains called Buffalo Herd overlook and a place that’s supposed to represent Cody’s grave, but I believe his REAL remains are buried in South Dakota…unless they William Wallace’d him and he’s in BOTH places. Not a far drive from Denver, about a half an hour….real Buffalo at the overlook too, kinda cool.

Mark

Just for the record, the real “Buffalo Bill” Cody is buried here:

http://www.buffalobill.org/

Alan

The SBAC show flood was 15/09/68. I didn’t know there was a Devon buried there, how long will it be before were excavating the site to see if anything remains of it? The canal is actually The Basingstoke Canal and was once owned by my great grandfathers brother Alec. For more info see –

www.basingstoke-canal.org.uk

The canal has been tidied up a great deal, I walked from the Flash to the Airbourne Forces Museum, that also is very interesting!! But you have to go through Army check points as it is an active base, No handbags or Cameras are permitted 😉 Anna

Eelmoor flash is musch more silted up than it would have been in Cody’s day. The canal is still navagable but the flash as been left to nature. I think it suffered from the famous SBAC show flood of 74? When that whole end of the airfield was under water. They put a fuselarge of a ex RAE Devon in as part of the flood defences and covered it over! The bridge also gives a great view of the runway. Codys shed was located at that end, just to the north of what is the end of the current runway 06.
As for the biplane it never flew from the flash, it was just for floatation trials.
And infact he never flew it as a floatplane. He converted it back to a landplane and it was in this that he met his untimely end.

The SBAC show flood was 15/09/68. I didn’t know there was a Devon buried there, how long will it be before were excavating the site to see if anything remains of it? The canal is actually The Basingstoke Canal and was once owned by my great grandfathers brother Alec. For more info see –

www.basingstoke-canal.org.uk

We have a place off of I-70 into the mountains called Buffalo Herd overlook and a place that’s supposed to represent Cody’s grave, but I believe his REAL remains are buried in South Dakota…unless they William Wallace’d him and he’s in BOTH places. Not a far drive from Denver, about a half an hour….real Buffalo at the overlook too, kinda cool.

Mark

Members of the Cody family still live in the Farnborough area. The original family house is just across the road from Ash Vale train station and two Cody brothers run a second hand car business just across the street.

Yep!! Anna will photo that this weekend 😉 Anna 😀 😀

Members of the Cody family still live in the Farnborough area. The original family house is just across the road from Ash Vale train station and two Cody brothers run a second hand car business just across the street.

S Cody crashed on Laffan’s Plain 🙁 Anna 😉 🙁

Eelmoor flash is musch more silted up than it would have been in Cody’s day. The canal is still navagable but the flash as been left to nature. I think it suffered from the famous SBAC show flood of 74? When that whole end of the airfield was under water. They put a fuselarge of a ex RAE Devon in as part of the flood defences and covered it over! The bridge also gives a great view of the runway. Codys shed was located at that end, just to the north of what is the end of the current runway 06.
As for the biplane it never flew from the flash, it was just for floatation trials.
And infact he never flew it as a floatplane. He converted it back to a landplane and it was in this that he met his untimely end.

He was buried with full honours at Aldershot Military Cemetary, I beleive a small Cody Tree can be found at the location 😉 Anna 😉

Thanks Cloudy, sort of proves my point that he was often mistaken for the Original Wild Bill.

There appears to be two Wild “Bill” Cody’s one, William Cody, died penniless at his sister’s home in Denver in 1910 and Samuel “Wild Bill” Cody “probably born Franklin Cowdery in Iowa” who died in a plane crash in 1913.

I wonder if the latter took the formers name as a gimmick, though it appears that his Wild West show didn’t run for long, and wasn’t as noted as the original Wild Bill.

A bit of trivia :- William Cody, was a direct decendant of Phillip Le Cody originally Le Caudey from Jersey, so now you know.

Here’s an interesting site about him:

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/cody

Something rings a bell in my memory that although not mentioned on the site, I seem to remember the US navy using his kites also.

Alan

There appears to be two Wild “Bill” Cody’s one, William Cody, died penniless at his sister’s home in Denver in 1910 and Samuel “Wild Bill” Cody “probably born Franklin Cowdery in Iowa” who died in a plane crash in 1913.

I wonder if the latter took the formers name as a gimmick, though it appears that his Wild West show didn’t run for long, and wasn’t as noted as the original Wild Bill.

A bit of trivia :- William Cody, was a direct decendant of Phillip Le Cody originally Le Caudey from Jersey, so now you know.

I was at an auction, some 10 years ago, of Cody belongings. What surprised me was the fact that many items relating to aviation were stuggling to get a good price, whilst there was a far greater interest in the items from his Wild West Shows. Makes you think.

Anna
it was the same aircraft that Cody later fitted with wheels, which crashed and killed him on August Bank holiday that year.
It was a machine he’d designed specially for the round Britain race.

Putnans again!!–Oh well.
Cheers
Andy

Yep!! Steve the Paras where based in Aldershot, and the canal runs alongside the Airbourne museum. Well Worth a visit 😉 😉 Anna 😉 🙂

Ta, thought it might be.

As for visiting Aldershyte, no thanks, spent far too much time in Malta Barracks years ago… 😉