IN MEMORIAN CLERENCE A. HESS CLANCY 1921 - 2014 ...........OF MEN AND MACHINES - SALUT TO A GREAT MAN! While standing in amazement viewing the accomplishment of men and women to aviation at the Greatest Air Show on earth , each year in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA, like this tank & troop-carrying aircraft, the C-5, we overlook the great men of past times, which in small steps, one at a time, made all this happen. Men like Captain Clancy! Yes, Captain Clancy Hess, that is. Now 93 years old, it sounds odd, Clancy recounting as he performed 1928, from a strip on a farm near Glenview, Illinois, his first solo flight. 10 years old. That when the obsession of flying began. This airstrip on a farm, is what later became the Glenview Naval Air Station. Clancy recounts the days flying for Collins Radio Co. - now NBC - which bought into the aircraft manufacturing industry. His collection of photos shows him in association with people in the 1920/1930th, who not only wrote history but made history. Mail carriers, air mail carriers that is. Men like Charles Lindbergh or Lauris Norstad, the first Nato Air Force Commander. His photo albums and news clippings, speak and radiate vividly, expressively aviation history from its days of dawn to the silhouette of the C-5, in which shadow Clancy and I stand, while leaning against the J-1. ITS A GREAT HONOR CLANCY - YOU AND I - WE WERE FRIENDS!
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 18:05:19 +0000
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