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made a flight at Jackson Center, Ohio, probably the first flight of the year in the State. During the late 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 13, 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 according to Milton's ideas. At this same time they were also operating a flying school with their [[crossed out]] revised [[/crossed out]], 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 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 had seemed destined to go on to s prominent place in aviation. 

Edward gave up active flying until the late fall of 1915 when he did some testing of a new flying boat being developed by the Maximotor Aircraft Engine Company of Detroit. Meanwhile he was rebuilding his Benoist airplane with the assistance of Orvil Clemmer, a former pupil of his who to fly it. While in Detroit that fall Edward also did some test flying on a new Jannus flying boat. 

For years after the accident Edward was in poor health because of the injuries he had sustained. He finall entered the Ross College of Chiropractic at Fort Wayne, Indiana, as a patient and also as a student. He became a successful physician. His later years were spent in East Orange, New Jersey. He died in 1980. 

An active Early Bird and a member of Silver Wings (those who soloed 25 years prior to joining), Dr. Edward Korn was one of the earliest-solo-dated members of the flying fraternity, unique also for having been a member of the Benoist organization. When America