Word: seaters
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...this year, more than doubling last year's orders. Bombardier's deliveries of its Q Series turboprop (Q stands for quiet) were up 71% last year. And Europe's ATR was in a death spiral when the market gave it lift; ATR's sales jumped 100% for its 42-seater (ATR 42-500) and 157% for its 72-seater...
...mean, I'm playing less large shows. In the beginning of this year I did a show in Anguilla, just on a little island next to St. Maarten, because I thought it would be cool. Then I went to Paris about 3 weeks ago and played a 400-seater. So there's a lot more of that kind of stuff on my agenda. Right now I'm pretty happy with the balance of going and doing smaller venues, which we definitely still do, as well as looking at neat places to play and then still playing [big shows...
...space-shuttle runs but adds an innovation: the same hybrid motor used by SpaceShipOne to win the X Prize in 2004--laughing gas shot through rubber. In comparison, the spaceship being developed in great secrecy by Bezos' Blue Origin looks like a lopped-off nose cone. The three-seater, fueled by hydrogen peroxide (yup, the common household disinfectant, though in a highly purified form, with a touch of kerosene) appears based on an old Delta Clipper design done for NASA. Musk's SpaceX designers favor the NASA look too--of old Apollo capsules--but that translates into ocean splashdowns...
...party -- including the correspondents who cover these leaders, as well as photographer Gregory Heisler, his two assistants and their 350 lbs. of equipment -- ever make it to the right place on time on short notice? The answer was expensive but simple: a chartered jet. Attinger found an eight-seater in London, and she had it flown to Oslo. Next morning Mandela made good on the interview, starting at 7:30, and by 10 a.m. Wednesday there was one down, three to go. Where to next? Cairo seemed like the right staging point. There Cairo bureau chief Dean Fischer advised that...
...Mercedes' archrival BMW has shown that there is a market for small commuter cars--even in the SUV-happy U.S. If Smart does buck the odds and survive, the next big decision will be whether to launch the car in the States. A successor model to the original two-seater is under design, and it will comply with U.S. road requirements, company officials say. In hindsight, "we were naive," says a senior Smart executive. "We initially said we weren't selling a car but an idea. Now we know that customers want to buy cars, not ideas...