"Cap" Cornish, Indiana pilot : navigating the century of flight /

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"Clarence "Cap" Cornish was 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 began flying at the age of nineteen, piloting a "Jenny" aircraft during World War I, and continued...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ingraham, Ruth Ann (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Cornish, Clarence, > 1898-1995.
Cornish, Clarence, > 1898-1995
Air pilots > United States > Biography.
Aeronautics > Indiana > History.
Pilotes d'aéronef > États-Unis > Biographies.
TRANSPORTATION > Aviation > History.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Engineering (General)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Aeronautics
Air pilots
Indiana
United States
Biography
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Growing up Hoosier
  • His head in the clouds
  • Back to Earth
  • The lure of the skies
  • Fellowship forged through flight
  • How to grow an airport
  • A new Baer field and a struggling old
  • Keeping the home skies safe
  • Calming the turbulence
  • Culmination of a life in flight
  • Never call it quits
  • "Cap's last flight" by Betty Nicholas.

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