Word: cessnas
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...thrive on such tough times. For years he kept a terminal kidney disease secret from everyone but his doctors and wife Meave, until he finally agreed to a lifesaving kidney transplant from his estranged younger brother Philip, a former KANU member of Parliament. In 1993, a single-engine Cessna that Leakey was piloting lost power--many believe it was a result of sabotage--and crash-landed. He lost both legs below the knee but within three weeks was walking again with the help of artificial limbs. "Some people deteriorate under pressure; some people get exhilarated," Leakey said last week...
...particular plane so much as the right to fly on a jet of the class they have purchased. NetJets owners can purchase a fraction of a plane up to the whole thing and get a proportional share of its air time. A one-eighth share of, say, a Cessna Citation V Ultra goes for $835,000, and each hour of occupied flight will cost you $1,242. Management and other fees are around $7,600 a month...
...service deteriorated, they also found themselves at the mercy of big airlines. Fractional ownership splits the difference: expensive, but cheaper than full board; and the convenience helps compensate for the cost. Just try flying on commercial airlines from Mobile, Ala., to Moline, Ill., nonstop. NetJet offers everything from small Cessna Citation S/IIs up to the new Boeing Business Jet, a reconfigured...
...quite the image of a NASA poster boy. But Energiya claims he's got the right stuff, that he's fit to fly and is a licensed pilot. Llewellyn, however, conceded to the Moscow Times that he's 112 lbs. overweight and, though he was certified to pilot a Cessna in 1976, has not flown a plane in 19 years. Still, Energiya says if Llewellyn can raise $100 million, he gets a week of room and board on Mir this August...
...temptation to blame the plane comes largely from a confusion between experimental aircraft and ultralight planes. Both became hugely popular in the mid-1980s after a series of product-liability lawsuits drove the makers of conventional small planes--Piper Cubs, Cessna 150s and other single-engine aircraft--to the brink of bankruptcy and, in some cases, over...