Ad, Cessna Aircraft Company. Fortune magazine, April 1960.
The eagle-eyed Ghost of a flea sent this to me last month. I see that printing salesmen, farm implement manufacturers and even (way in the back) industrial designers can cost-justify a single-engined high-wing monoplane as a part of doing business, but it is with no small sadness that I note there is no “I.T. Jerk” group way off in the back forty.
If only my high school guidance counsellor had a poster version of this ad on her wall, way back when.
Chris is most often found flying a desk, but he delights in studying the Golden Age of Aviation (1919-1939). He admires all the pioneering men and women who navigated the skies with nothing more sophisticated than a map, compass and sextant—and the conviction that there was no place they could not reach.
