Weightless at last
Posted in "cosmonaut training", Russia, logistics, space travel on Jan 21st, 2009 1 Comment »
In which I experience weightlessness for the fifth time.
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I can see clearly now
Posted in "cosmonaut training", logistics, space travel on Jan 11th, 2009 No Comments »
wherein I learn to appreciate home….
Flight School 08 RIP. Long live Flight School 09!
Posted in Uncategorized, finance, logistics, marketing, on-demand air, space travel, the industry on Apr 25th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve just finished writing to all the speakers and signed-up participants for this year’s Flight School, announcing its cancellation. Please stand by for Flight School 2009!
It’s incredibly frustrating to do this, but we (Imaginova and I) just weren’t signing up a critical mass of participants, despite a great speaker list. […]
Bruce Holmes: “Raise your hand!”
Posted in logistics, on-demand air, the industry on Apr 15th, 2008 No Comments »
“Someone from the private sector needs to raise their hand to make NextGen happen,” says Bruce Holmes. He believes this so fervently that he recently left NASA (where he was Chief Strategist at Langley Research Center as well as director for strategy development at the U.S. Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO) in DC), to […]
Trip report: DayJet
Posted in logistics, marketing, on-demand air, the industry on Mar 20th, 2008 No Comments »
I just visited DayJet to chat with Ed Iacobucci, who is going to be a speaker at Flight School this June. It was an enjoyable trip. (Disclosure:) I got a free sample, which made the case. I had just flown in from Germany, almost a 10-hour flight. My ride to […]
Update: Aspen airport reopening on schedule
Posted in logistics on May 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Just in case you were wondering:
The Aspen Airport, currently closed for repaving, is still scheduled to reopen on June 7, according to Kiewit Western, the construction company doing the repaving. (The airport’s own site has only a press release from July 2006, speaking of ?effective? customer communications!)
Yeah, I would be skeptical too, but the Aspen […]