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We selected our collection of high-quality frames to reflect the latest in eyewear style, fashion, and functionality. Whatever your age or eyewear needs, we have something for you! |
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The new Cody Air eyewear collection takes inspiration from the Machine
Age and Art Deco Era - a time in history when builders took pride in
hand craftsmanship, artisans did not cut corners, things were built to
last and designed with passion, pride & quality. |
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| Cody Air's aerodynamic, patent pending designs
are influenced by the industrial designs of iconic aircraft and
automobiles which focused on functionality and symmetry. This
streamlined eyewear collection is cut from a single sheet of surgical
grade stainless steel with no screws or solder-points. Cody Air embodies
super sleek, ultra comfortable and minimal. |
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| Cody Air frames are named
after the early pioneers of aviation and presented in chronological
order. |
| LU BAN:
(507–440 BC)
was a
Chinese carpenter, engineer, philosopher,inventor, military thinker,
statesman and contemporary of Mozi, born in the State of Lu, and is the
patron Saint of Chinese builders and contractors. He was born in a
renowned family during the Spring and Autumn Period when China was
suffering from the chaos of civic wars between kingdoms. His original
name was Gongshu Yizhi. In the 5th century BCE Lu Ban is claimed to have
invented a 'wooden bird' which may have been a large kite, or which may
have been an early glider. |
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| ARCHYTAS: (428–347 BC)
was as an
Ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician,astronomer, statesman, and
strategist. He was a scientist of the Pythagorean school and famous for
being the reputed founder of mathematical mechanics, as well as a good
friend of Plato. He was reputed to have designed and built the first
artificial, self-propelled flying device, a bird-shaped model propelled
by a jet of what was probably steam, said to have actually flown some
200 meters. |
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| HUANGTOU: (Died 559)
was the
son of emperor Yuan Lang of Eastern Wei. Gao Yang, Emperor Wenxuan of
Northern Qi, made Huangtou and other prisoners take off from the Tower
of the Phoenix attached to paper (kites in the form of) owls. Huangtou
was the only one who succeeded in flying as far as the Purple Way, and
there he came to earth. At that time, Gao Yang took control the court of
Eastern Wei and set the emperor as puppet. Finally, Huangtou was
imprisoned by Gao Yang and, against his will, flown (via a large kite)
from the tower of Ye, China. He survived this flight, but was later
executed. |
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| OLIVER: (981-1069)
(also
known as Eilmer of Malmesbury) was an 11th-century English Benedictine
monk best known for his early attempt at a gliding flight using wings.
Given the geography of the abbey, his landing site, and the account of
his flight, to travel for "more than a furlong" (220 yards, 201 meters)
he would have had to have been airborne for about 15 seconds. His exact
flightpath is not known, nor how long he was in the air, because today’s
abbey is not the abbey of the 11th century, when it was probably
smaller, although the tower was probably close to the present height. |
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| BARTOLOMEU: (1451–1500)
was a
Portuguese explorer and nobleman of the Portuguese royal household. He
sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first European
known to have done so. He was a Knight of the royal court,
superintendent of the royal warehouses, and sailing-master of the
man-of-war, São Cristóvão. King John II of Portugal appointed him on 10
October 1487 to head an expedition to sail around the southern tip of
Africa in the hope of finding a trade route to India. Dias was also
charged with searching for the lands ruled by Prester John, a fabled
Christian priest and ruler. |
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| DA VINCI: (1452–1519)
was an
Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician,
scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist,
cartographer, botanist, and writer. Da Vinci designed a multitude of
mechanical devices, including parachutes, and studied the flight of
birds as well as their structure. About 1485 he drew detailed plans for
a human-powered ornithopter (a wing-flapping device intended to fly). |
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| TITO LIVIO: (1617-1681)
was an
inventor, architect, Egyptologist, scientist, instrument-maker,
traveller, engineer, and nobleman. Livio built a model aircraft with
four fixed glider wings in 1647. Described as "four pairs of wings
attached to an elaborate 'dragon'", it was said to have successfully
lifted a cat in 1648 but not Burattini himself. According to Clive
Hart's The Prehistory of Flight, he promised that "only the most minor
injuries" would result from landing the craft. |
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| MONTGOLFIER: Joseph (1740-1810)
and his
brother Etienne (1745-1799) were the inventors of the Montgolfière-style
hot air balloon, globe aérostatique. The brothers succeeded in launching
the first manned ascent, carrying Étienne into the sky. Later, in
December 1783, in recognition of their achievement, their father Pierre
was elevated to the nobility and the hereditary appellation of de
Montgolfier by King Louis XVI of France. |
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| LANA DE TERZI: (1631 - 1687)
was an
Italian Jesuit, mathematician, naturalist and aeronautics pioneer.
Having been professor of physics and mathematics at Brescia, he first
sketched the concept for a vacuum airship and has been referred to as
the Father of Aeronautics for his pioneering efforts, turning the
aeronautics field into a science by establishing "a theory of aerial
navigation verified by mathematical accuracy". He also developed the
idea that developed into Braille. |
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