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My last article centered on the negative media surrounding our industry and the tepid and muted response our industry provided. As I pointed out, we have reached a crossroads in the global crisis and general aviation is facing a long journey to rebuilding the public’s perception of our existence.

A recent visit to one of my favorite all-general aviation airports recently felt more like a visit to the neighborhood school during summer break – it was eerily quiet, and uncharacteristically slow.Where a couple of guys stayed busy storing and pulling airplanes from their hangars, or pumping fuel or selling charts, there was only the old manager now – and he wasn’t being taxed by the level of work. “It’s been like this all year,” snorted an ...

Taking in the extravaganza of flying at the world’s largest aviation event brings opportunities to witness virtually every application known for aeronautical conveyances. The visitor can see, and touch flying hardware that sits at the extremes of the scale as well as samplings from every level in between. Turn one way, for example, and at hand in front of you fly some of the world’s smallest and lightest flying machines, single- ...

A pilot acquaintance from the air-show and fly-in circuits visited Wichita recently, flying into the area in pursuit of some good-old American Commerce. The Deal involved the prospect of developing some real estate sought by investors he believes hope to ‘build-to-suit’ for another company with plans to expand. Before seeing him here, the real life of J.G. (as we’ll call him) never came up in conversation whenever we crossed ...

A couple of people flying a small business’ small airplane introduced me to the utility in business aviation many years ago… decades back, actually. My experience left me feeling that the simple utility of the private company plane was the luxury often mentioned in the same sentence with ‘jets’ back then. It felt to me that no greater luxury existed than access to a private plane to fly from where you were to where you ...

People who spend their time observing the economy often note the so-called ‘ripple effect’ of one industry or another: Manufacturer A buys materials from Vendor B, Vendor C and Vendor D; the prices paid to Manufacturer A for its products ripples through those vendors, who in turn buy materials from still other companies to put into their products that go into the item made by Manufacturer A. Along the way, wages and salaries get paid ...

“I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them, and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!'” - Actor Peter Finch as talk-show host Howard Beale in the 1976 film, ‘Network’. Well, it’s time – some say past time – for business aviation to follow Howard Beale’s advice, to sit up, open the cockpit window and shout ...