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With a maximum flight time of three hours, microjets will shuttle corporate executives over most of Western Europe. Given that they can land on short runways, they can also use secondary airports that may be closer to customers' final destinations. Blink will fly 45 Cessna Mustangs, and later this summer Dublin-based Jet Bird will launch a rival European shuttle service with 100 Embraer Phenom 100s. More operators are expected as manufacturers such as Adam, Hondajet and Eclipse bring new microjets to the market...
...Cessna's single engine could not have failed over a worse patch of Colombian jungle. On Feb. 13, 2003, four U.S. defense contractors and a Colombian police officer, on a routine surveillance flight looking for rural cocaine laboratories, made an emergency landing in southern Colombia. The area is a stronghold of the fierce Marxist guerrillas known as the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces, or FARC. Rebel soldiers swarmed over the shattered plane, shooting and killing its U.S. pilot, Thomas Janis, and the Colombian officer, Luis Cruz. They stripped the remaining Americans -Keith Stansell, Thomas Howes and Marc Gonsalves - of their clothes...
...From his Cessna a mile above the southern Amazon, John Carter looks down on the destruction of the world's greatest ecological jewel. He watches men converting rain forest into cattle pastures and soybean fields with bulldozers and chains. He sees fires wiping out such gigantic swaths of jungle that scientists now debate the "savannization" of the Amazon. Brazil just announced that deforestation is on track to double this year; Carter, a Texas cowboy with all the subtlety of a chainsaw, says it's going to get worse fast. "It gives me goose bumps," says Carter, who founded a nonprofit...
Most recently she was leading life as a grownup, working for an insurance company and making plans to study psychology in grad school. But many remember Vicki Van Meter as the brave sixth-grader beaming from the cockpit of her single-engine Cessna 172--the kid who in 1993 became the youngest girl to fly across the U.S. and, later, across the Atlantic to Scotland. Van Meter, who spent two years in Moldova in the Peace Corps, suffered from depression and died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound...
Renting a Cessna: $100 per hour. Hiring a flight instructor: $45 per hour. Being able to legitimately rock those aviator sunglasses: priceless. While flying—and style—can run up a hefty bill, one freshman is hoping to bring at least the former to Harvard’s campus. Emanual C. Beica ’11 doesn’t have a driver’s license, but he did qualify for his private pilot’s license when he was 17 and has an advanced ground instructor certificate. Beica is organizing an aviation club...