Over the next few weeks, we’ll be scouring the internet on the look-out for some great ideas for Christmas.
We came across this very impressive coffee-table hard-back book called Jet Dreams. It’s a tribute to a group of plucky chief executives who first dreamt of flying jets as kids, and kept that passion alive for years. Think of Jet Dreams as the ultimate yearbook for owner/operators.
The author and photographer, Jessica Ambets, has amassed a collection of images and quotes over 15 years from 40 chief executives who have spent their working life climbing the corporate ladder affording them the cash to fulfil their fantasy.
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“What they all had in common was a childhood passion that was realized as executives,” says California-based Ambats about the highly unusual group she photographed. Owner-operators of prop-driven aircraft are common, but owners who fly their own jets is a small group.
“When I was 12, I read a book about flying to Alaska as a bush pilot,” says Raymond J. Bailey, president of Texas-based Lone Star Communications. “When someone asked me what I was going to do when I grew up, I said I’m going to be an Alaskan bush pilot. I hadn’t even been in an airplane yet, but I was adamant.”
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Some of the executives fly decommissioned fighter jets like the L-39 and Marchetti S.211, while others are happier winging their way to business meetings and family retreats in more conventional business jets. The Embraer Phenom 300, Cessna Citation CJ3+, Pilatus PC-24 and Cirrus Vision Jet are all among the chief executives’ personal fleet.
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The 216-page hardcover book, priced at $120, is published by Baseturn.com.