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[[stamped]]FROM THE FLYING PIONEERS BIOGRAPHIES OF HAROLD MOREHOUSE[[/stamped]]

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CORD MEYER 
Early Wright Pilot - World War I Aviator

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Cord Meyer was born in New York City November 15, 1894. He attended St. Pauls School, Concord, N.H. and Yale University 1913-1917, graduating with his Ph B. His parents lived at Great Neck, L.I., New York and during his schooling years he spent the summers there.

Meyer became interested in aviation in 1910 when Glenn Curtiss made some of his first public flights on Long Island. As a result he frequented the early Long Island flying fields with his friends hoping some time to get a ride. Finally, in 1911, he had his first flight at the Mineola Fairgrounds. Following this he was determined to learn to fly, and after obtaining his parents' reluctant consent, enrolled for flight instruction with the Beatty Flying School at Hempstead, L.I., New York, during the summer of 1912. His instructor was George Beatty, and on October 2, 1912 Meyer obtained FAI Pilot License No. 176 flying a Wright Model B. 
During his license tests he obtained an altitude of 1200 ft., which in 1912, was a new Aero Club record.

Since Meyer was still in school his flying practice was somewhat limited for a while. In college, however, he took advantage of every opportunity to gain additional aviation experience. In the early spring of 1916 he joined a group of about twenty students to form the Yale Aero Corps. Arrangements were made for them to take an aviation ground school course at the State Armory, New Haven, Conn. on the new DN-I