Clyde Cessna & Walter Beech helped make this city in Kansas the "air capital of the world"
These industry giants make it possible for Wichita to 
supply ... for such industry giants as Walter Beech, Clyde Cessna, Matty Laird, Bill 
... as Boeing (Wichita) and North American Aviation (Kansas City, KS)... [DOC] [TLE] KANSAS AVIATION HALL OF FAME AWARDS  Wings over Kansas [PAR] co-founded Beech Aircraft Corporation with her husband, the late Walter ... Wells 
of Topeka, who received his pilot's license in 1922, helped form ... City, and then 
on to Newark, New Jersey.