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was a flight at Jackson Center, Ohio, probably the first flight of the year in the State. During the later winter and spring months, they gave their plane a thorough overhaul, replacing many parts including new wings with trailing edge ailerons, and Milton devised a new dual control system for training purposes. On May 13th, 1913, Edward took Mrs. Korn for a 20 minute ride at Jackson Center. In June he flew from Montra to Botkins, Ohio, where he gave an exhibition before a large crowd, and in July flew two days at Richwood, Ohio. During the early summer of 1913, they formed the Korn Brothers Aeroplane Co., Sidney, Ohio, and started booking exhibition engagements from there. For some time the brothers had been planning to build  a new light single-seater plane of their own design and Edward was working on the drawings for it, largely to Milton's ideas. At this same time they were also operating a flying school with their revised, dual control Benoist plane. Up to that period Milton had not had the opportunity to learn to fly, so Edward was teaching him, along with the other students. On August 13, 1913, while Edward and Milton were flying to the farm on of their grandfather, they experienced a bad smash-up and Edward sustained injuries which kept him in the hospital for some time. Milton, who was thrown against the engine, sustained injuries from which he died on August 19th, thus ending what promised to be a brilliant aeronautical career and an enthusiastic, devoted brother team combination that seemed destined to go on to an unforeseeable place in early aviation.

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FROM THE FLYING PIONEERS BIOGRAPHIES OF HAROLD E MOREHOUSE

Following the accident, Edward apparently gave up active flying for the Maximotor Aircraft Engine Co., of Detroit, Mich. with a new flying boat being developed. At the same time he was rebuilding his old Benoist plane with the assistance of Orvil Clemmer, a former pupil of his who was to fly it after being completed. While in Detroit that fall, Edward also did some test flying on a new Jannus Flying Boat.

A younger brother, Arlington Korn, became a pilot and in 1946 after leaving the Department of Agriculture, operated the old home farm airport where he owned several planes. the field was also used by flying farmers and in World War II he taught many Air Corps pilots. Arlington Korn died April 27, 1958, but the field is still an active airport and known as KORN FIELD, one of the oldest in Ohio.

For years after the accident on August 13, 1913, Edward was in very poor health from the injuries he sustained. He finally entered the ROSS College of Chiropractic, Ft. Wayne, Indiana,