Comments around work, travel and things that pay the bills.
Guardian Jet took another step forward last week with the hiring of our first International sales representative based in London, England. The full story as conveyed in one of our recent trade journals is reported in the link below:
Source: The thrill is gone but the industry pushes on (Corporate Jet Investor One Minute Week No 261)
1998 was a big year for me. I graduated from college, got my first real job in the so called real world and I was doing what I loved, flying, each and every day. It was also the only year that I made the cover of a magazine. Thanks to the magic of Facebook and an old friend posting some photos of our fifteen seconds of fame, I got to stroll down memory lane this evening.
I was fortunate enough to go to work for Executive Beechcraft in Kansas City teaching people to fly out of the Kansas City Downtown Airport. I came to work one day and was told that a local photographer from Flight Training Magazine was coming by to take some photos and I was asked if I could make myself available to help. Having no reason not to say yes, I met the gentleman at the targeted time.
Since I was a flight instructor I was already familiar with the magazine and the fact that they did something very interesting with their covers. They liked to have the inside cover show the opposite perspective as the front cover. However, until I met with the photographer, I had no idea that he was solely looking to shoot the cover for a future issue. When he explained what he wanted myself and one of the students helped make it happen.
We jumped in a twin engine aircraft called a Beechcraft Duchess and spent nearly an hour working with the photographer to get a roll or two of film. Given that we still hadn’t entered the digital age where you can see someone’s photographic work within seconds, we had no idea what to expect until we saw the actual magazine hit the newsstands a few months later. Thanks to Bob Malt and his post on Facebook, (I’m in the blue shirt, he’s in the red shirt in the photos you see below) I was reminded of that sunny day in Kansas City as well as the feeling of seeing yourself on the cover of a magazine when it arrived in the mail.
While this was my only cover, I did help that same photographer a few more times in the eighteen months I spent in Kansas City. Several of those photos involved actual flights around the Kansas and Missouri area and appeared in both Flight Training and AOPA Magazine. Thankfully no additional published photos involved my ugly mug!
