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“Cap” Cornish, Indiana Pilot: Navigating the Century of Flight

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Clarence “Cap” Cornish was once an Indiana pilot whose life spanned all but five years of the Century of Flight. Born in Canada in 1898, Cornish grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He started flying on the age of nineteen, piloting a “Jenny” aircraft All the way through World War I, and continued to fly for the following seventy-eight years. In 1995, on the age of ninety-seven, he was once recognized by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest actively flying pilot.The mid-1920s to the mid-1950s were Cornish’s most active years in aviation. All the way through that period, sod runways gave approach to asphalt and concrete; navigation evolved from the iron rail compass to radar; runways that once had been outlined at night with cans of oil topped off with flaming gasoline now shimmered with multicolored electric lights; as an alternative of being crammed next to mailbags in open-air cockpits, passengers sat comfortably in streamlined, pressurized cabins. Within the early phase of that era, Cornish performed aerobatics and won air races. He went on to run a full-service flying business, served as chief pilot for the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, managed the city’s municipal airport, helped monitor and take care of secure skies above the continental United States All the way through World War II, and directed Indiana’s first Aeronautics Commission.Dedicating his life to flight and its many ramifications, Cornish helped guide the sensible development of aviation as it grew from infancy to maturity. Through his many personal experiences, the story of flight nationally is played out.

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