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When the elevator reached ground level, the attendants brusquely shooed away curious hotel workers and loaded the man into an ambulance that sped to the airport. There the patient was placed in a waiting Gates Learjet ambulance plane from Miami. Before landing in Acapulco earlier that day, it had fetched from the Bahamas a vacationing Utah physician, Wilbur Thain, who was one of the patient's three private doctors. Pilot Roger Sutton was alarmed by the ailing passenger's condition. "He looked very emaciated, a pasty color," he recalls. "When they put him on the plane, he moved...
...Learjet streaked toward Houston, Sutton inquired about the patient's condition...
...years of severe recession, consumers and businesses put off any purchases that they can, and hardly any purchase would seem more readily postponable than a private plane costing from $5,000 (for a used Piper Cub) to $1.6 million (for a new Learjet). But 1975 turned out to be the "general aviation" industry's best year ever. In the twelve months ended last September, sales of private planes jumped 12%, to just over $1 billion...
...private-plane boom has helped keep the unemployment rate in Kansas, where Cessna (1975 sales: $491 million) is the biggest private employer, to 4.5%. In Wichita, the home of Beech and Gates Learjet as well as Cessna, the rate is lower still; in fact, Learjet, unable to find enough qualified Wichitans to run its production lines, will open a factory in Tucson this year. Says Cessna Chairman Russell Meyer: "We have kept pinching ourselves-at first it was hard to believe...
...investment to the wise." Explains Ringer: "The brochure was intimidating. I was not just another member of the pack. I was obviously 'somebody.' " Ringer continued to intimidate by arranging to get his clients to meet him at airports where they could watch him land in his own Learjet. He traveled with a retinue of assistants and secretaries, laden with portable office machines, and he unexpectedly brought his attorney to closings for additional intimidation. Ringer believes that these real estate techniques apply "to all phases of life." But the only non-real estate example he cites is marriage...