Farnborough Air Sciences Trust

Farnborough Air Sciences TrustSafeguarding Our Unique Aviation HeritageBriefing No. 7 on the royal EngineersBalloon factory finished where theBalloon factory was being moved to theFarnborough site after the winter of1904 royal aircraft FACTORYIt took some time to complete the move to Farnborough , which occurred in August orSeptember 1906. In the meantime, without the use of balloons, the factory s workcontinued as best as it could; and in mid 1904 work had been carried out to try anddetermine the effectiveness of man-lifting kites. The idea was not new; in mid 1894 aman-lifting-kite-section had been added to the Balloon School using equipment whichhad been designed by Captain B F S Baden-Powell, but the stability of these kites wasnot adequate enough in gusty conditions and the experiments were new type of kites were designed by Samuel Franklin Cody and were of bi-planebox form and used a number of these varying size kites flown on a common proved considerably superior to previously tried systems and observers werelifted to over 1000 ft on many occasions with high levels of stability.

Aviation Science & Development at Farnborough History and Learning Briefings No. 9 - The Royal Aircraft Factory Farnborough Air Sciences Trust I Registered Charity No. 1040199 I .www.airsciences.org.uk Briefing No. 9 Page 2 of 7

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