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
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Clyde Vernon Cessna was an automobile dealer and mechanic when he stood outside Enid, Oklahoma, in the spring of 1911, staring at a wood-and-fabric monoplane he had built around a Bleriot-style fuselage bought from the Queen Aeroplane Company in New York. He had never been in an aeroplane. Neither had anyone in his family, his church, his county, or most of the surrounding state. The Wright brothers had flown at Kitty Hawk less than eight years earlier. And Cessna, who would eventually give his
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