Denham Aerodrome

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Flying has been taking place on the site of Denham Aerodrome since almost the earliest days of aviation. The world's first controlled flight was made by the Wright brothers in 1903, and the first flights in Britain were made in 1908 when Samuel Cody flew at Farnborough and Alliott Verdon Roe at Brooklands. A few years after this, the First World War brought the Royal Flying Corps' No. 5 and No. 6 Schools of Aeronautics to Denham to learn how to pack parachutes and rig aircraft at what is now the Martin Baker Aircraft Factory (rigging was the procedure of aligning biplanes' wings and wiring them in position). Farnborough Experimental 5's, Avros, R.E.8s and B.zCs flew from the present aerodrome site as a school of Flight Cadets was being trained.
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