Bury-St-Edmunds flying sites
NOTE: The map only gives the location of the town within the UK.
BURY-St-EDMUNDS see also BARDWELL MANOR
BURY-St-EDMUNDS see also ELDO HOUSE FARM
BURY-St-EDMUNDS see also RAVENWOOD HALL
BURY-St-EDMUNDS see also ROUGHAM
BURY-St-EDMUNDS AIRPORT see WESTLEY
BURY-St-EDMUNDS: Man carrying kite flight trial
Location: Barrack Field
Period of operation: In or around 19th November 1901?
NOTES: Please bear in mind that Cody was not exactly too keen to be born aloft in his kites. Apart from other ‘crew’ in his show, members of his family were often ‘volunteered’ to take initial flights. However, it does seem this record exists when the Cody show was taking place at the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds in November 1901. “I succeeded in making my first ascent with my series of kites in a wind blowing 18mph shoulder high, and at a rate of 35mph 100 yards high. My ‘pilot’ kite rose to a height of about 250 yards, and I was 100 yards high. The measurement was taken from a rope attached to my basket and let down to the earth below.”
A second attempt reached 800ft, (not yards this time?), “....but the wind was squally and after careering about for a while the supporting line snapped and Cody landed amongst the branches of a tree. Unhurt except for burning on his hands caused by friction of the rope.”
The very next day it appears, Cody filed a provisional application for patent No. 23566 – Improvements in Kites and Apparatus for the same.
BURY-St-EDMUNDS: Military Landing Ground
Military user: Royal Flying Corps 51 (Home Defence) Sqdn
Location: In/near Fornham St Martin on the NE outskirts of modern Bury-St-Edmunds town
Period of operation: 1916 only
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