Author: Sir Henry Drummond WolffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eastern question
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Rambling Recollections
Author: Sir Henry Drummond WolffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eastern question
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Rambling Recollections
Author: Pearse MorrisonPublisher: London : S. Sonnenschein
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Ramblin Recollections of Past Times; Embracing a Period from the Termination of Last Till the Close of the Twentieth Year of the Present Century
Author: Adam DAWSONRambling Recollections of a Soldier of Fortune
Author: William Hamilton MaxwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Rambling Recollections of the Neighbourhood of Dover, consisting of light scribblings, illustrated by slight sketches, of various scenes, and many incidents, connected with the locality of this interesting port, etc
Author: DOVER.Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature
Author: Samuel HalkettPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Memories of the Old College of Glasgow
Author: David MurrayBulletin
Author: Salem Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Bulletin of the Salem Public Library
Author: Salem Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
"Cap" Cornish, Indiana Pilot
Author: Ruth Ann IngrahamPublisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 1612493386
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
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 to fly for the next seventy-eight years. In 1995, at the age of ninety-seven, he was 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. During that period, sod runways gave way 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; instead of being crammed next to mailbags in open-air cockpits, passengers sat comfortably in streamlined, pressurized cabins. In 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 maintain safe skies above the continental United States during 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.