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Centenary Of Powered Flight In UK

EDM number 2318 in 2007-08, proposed by Gerald Howarth on 21/10/2008.
Categorised under the topic of Aviation.

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.

This motion has been signed by a total of 52 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Gerald Howarth21/10/2008AldershotConservativeProposed
David Borrow21/10/2008South RibbleLabourSeconded
Lembit 21/10/2008MontgomeryshireLiberal DemocratSeconded
Brian H Donohoe21/10/2008Central AyrshireLabourSeconded
Julian Brazier21/10/2008CanterburyConservativeSeconded
John Hemming21/10/2008Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSeconded
Jeffrey M Donaldson21/10/2008Lagan ValleyDUPSigned
Ben Wallace21/10/2008Lancaster and WyreConservativeSigned
Peter Viggers21/10/2008GosportConservativeSigned
Michael Jack21/10/2008FyldeConservativeSigned
Lindsay Hoyle21/10/2008ChorleyLabourSigned
Gordon Marsden22/10/2008Blackpool SouthLabourSigned
Jim Devine22/10/2008LivingstonLabourSigned
Nicholas Winterton22/10/2008MacclesfieldConservativeSigned
Graham Stringer22/10/2008Manchester, BlackleyLabourSigned
Mike Hancock22/10/2008Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Dismore22/10/2008HendonLabourSigned
Edward O'Hara22/10/2008Knowsley SouthLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell22/10/2008Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Robert Key22/10/2008SalisburyConservativeSigned
Lynne Jones22/10/2008Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Nicholas Soames22/10/2008Mid SussexConservativeSigned
Brian Jenkins23/10/2008TamworthLabourSigned
Paul Keetch23/10/2008HerefordLiberal DemocratSigned
Gregory Campbell23/10/2008East LondonderryDUPSigned
Andrew Rosindell27/10/2008RomfordConservativeSigned
Ann Winterton27/10/2008CongletonConservativeSigned
Betty Williams27/10/2008ConwyLabourSigned
James Gray27/10/2008North WiltshireConservativeSigned
Kelvin Hopkins27/10/2008Luton NorthLabourSigned
Greg Pope27/10/2008HyndburnLabourSigned
Malcolm Moss27/10/2008North East CambridgeshireConservativeSigned
Brian Iddon28/10/2008Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Tim Loughton28/10/2008East Worthing and ShorehamConservativeSigned
Rudi Vis28/10/2008Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Robert Wareing28/10/2008Liverpool, West DerbyIndependentSigned
John Leech28/10/2008Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Phil Willis29/10/2008Harrogate and KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned
Janet Dean29/10/2008BurtonLabourSigned
Ann Cryer29/10/2008KeighleyLabourSigned
Frank Cook29/10/2008Stockton NorthLabourSigned
Nick Harvey30/10/2008North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Simon Hughes30/10/2008North Southwark and BermondseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Bill Etherington30/10/2008Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Michael Jabez Foster30/10/2008Hastings and RyeLabourSigned
Vincent Cable03/11/2008TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
John Horam04/11/2008OrpingtonConservativeSigned
Peter Bottomley04/11/2008Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Hugo Swire06/11/2008East DevonConservativeSigned
Andrew Pelling10/11/2008Croydon CentralIndependentSigned
Eric Illsley11/11/2008Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Sammy Wilson20/11/2008East AntrimDUPSigned

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