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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Alisa Weinstein / The Bulletin
August 1, 2004
Cliff Clemens saw his first airplane in 1912 in Rock Springs, Iowa. It was three years after the Wright brothers took flight in North Carolina, and the 6-year-old Clemens and his father went to see a plane like the one flown by Wilbur and Orville Wright, which was touring the country.
"It....