Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Gerald Howarth (Conservative), on Tuesday, 21 October 2008, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 52 members in total.

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CENTENARY OF POWERED FLIGHT IN UK

That this House salutes the achievement of Samuel Franklin Cody on becoming the first man in the United Kingdom to achieve sustained powered flight when on 16th October 1908 he flew 1,390 feet from Laffan's Plain, Farnborough, Hampshire; acknowledges that Cody's epic flight, followed by other pioneers like A. V. Roe, Robert Blackburn, Tommy Sopwith, the Short Brothers and Geoffrey de Havilland, marked the start of a century of aviation development in which Britain became, and remains, a world leader; and urges hon. and right hon. Members to visit the full-size Cody replica painstakingly built by the volunteers of the Farnborough Air Sciences Trust, housed at Farnborough, and the exhibition in the Upper Waiting Hall sponsored by the principal successor company to the early pioneers, BAE Systems, to celebrate this most significant centenary.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

2318 

Session

2007-08

Other sponsors

Julian Brazier

Brian H Donohoe

Lembit Opik

David S Borrow

John Hemming

Subjects

Aviation

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk