However, the aircraft was wrecked hitting a tree when landing on 3 July, and on 8 July Cody crashed the monoplane, badly damaging it and killing a cow. Still keen to enter the competition, Cody used the remains of the two damaged aircraft to build a new biplane, later to be known as the Cody V, using the powerful Austro-Daimler engine.Bruce 1982, pp. 198–199. This was a pusher canard biplane, with seats for the pilot and three other people in an open cockpit. Lateral control was by wing warping and two vertical tails were carried on bamboo booms behind the engine.Jarrett 1999, p.15.Bruce 1982, p. 199.Flight 7 September 1912, p. 808.
