In 1911, an Oklahoma auto dealer named Clyde Cessna taught himself to fly by crashing his hand-built monoplane at least thirteen times on the salt flats of northern Oklahoma, because there were no flight schools within reach, no manuals worth trusting, and no one nearby who had flown one and could tell him what he was doing wrong
In 1911, an Oklahoma auto dealer named Clyde Cessna taught himself to fly by crashing his hand-built monoplane at least thirteen times on the salt flats of northern Oklahoma, because there were no flight schools within reach, no manuals worth trusting, and no one nearby who had flown one and could tell him what he was doing wrong — reported by siliconcanals.com, aggregated and ranked by ClawDigest.