A nearsighted fighter pilot flew without glasses

Fernand Jacquet is a Belgian aviator who participated in reconnaissance missions from the invasion of his country by Germany in August 1914. Suffering from myopia, he was unable to distinguish the ground without his corrective lenses and depended entirely on the skill of his observer Isseretant. This physical peculiarity did not prevent him from patrolling enemy lines aboard his two-seater or tracking uhlans by car.