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Pictured: The stand-out lot in the sale is a 13ins high solid silver trophy presented to him for the Round Britain Race of 1912 in which he carried out the longest flight in history at five hours.<br />
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An incredible archive relating to a swashbuckling pioneer of aviation is being sold by his family 109 years after his death in a plane accident. <br />
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Samuel Cody was one of the original 'magnificent men in their flying machines' who designed and built the first aeroplane to fly in Britain in 1908.<br />
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His experimental 'observation kite' was adopted by the British army in the same year, ultimately leading to the formation of the Royal Flying Corps and then the RAF.<br />
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Unsurprisingly, he was killed in a flying accident in 1913 after his powered plane broke up, tipping Cody and his passenger, the captain of Hampshire County Cricket Club, out at 500ft.