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BJT Management Series: Xoijet's Blair LaCorte
April 16, 2012
Blair LaCorte, 49, brought a childhood passion for aviation to XOJet. He joined the company as president in 2009, was named interim chief executive officer in 2010, and one year later became the full-time chief executive officer.
Center Stage: Lang Lang
March 26, 2012
Lang Lang
中文内容请参看下面的PDF文件International piano sensation Lang Lang grew up on a Chinese air force base where his father played in the military band.
Buzz Aldrin
March 22, 2012
Buzz Aldrin
These days, Buzz Aldrin zips around on a JetSuite Embraer Phenom 100 instead of a NASA spaceship. While he is helping JetSuite promote its regional light jet charter service, he also finds that VLJs offer a convenient way to travel to speaking engagements and for space research projects and vacations.
William Shatner
March 19, 2012
William Shatner
William Shatner has been a staple of popular culture for half a century. He is perhaps best known for playing Captain James Kirk on the 1960s television series Star Trek and in more than half a dozen of the like-titled motion pictures that followed.
BJT Mangement Series: A Conversation with Craig Sincock, CEO, Avfuel
February 24, 2012
Craig Sincock, CEO, Avfuel
Craig Sincock is the sole owner of Avfuel and has been CEO of the aviation fuel and services company since 1984. After graduating from the University of Michigan, he learned to fly and worked in the investment banking and consulting arena.  One of his consulting clients was a regional aviation fuel supplier serving the Great Lakes Region named Avfuel Corporation.
BJT Management Series: A Conversation With Scott Ashton
February 7, 2012
Scott Ashton spent five years at Gama Aviation, where he started in aircraft sales and acquisitions and became chief commercial officer, responsible for aircraft management and charter programs. He joined Sikorsky-owned Associated Aircraft Group in August of 2011 as president and general manager.
John Hendricks
February 1, 2012
Discovery Channel Founder John Hendricks
To appreciate what John Hendricks has created, just spend some time watching his Discovery Channel. Consider, for example, the moment on the Curiosity show when Dr. Dunn rips a piece of tape off host Mike Rowe's eyebrow and finds what he is seeking: eyebrow mites.
Air Partner’s Philip Mathews
February 1, 2012
Air Partner’s Philip Mathews
Phil Mathews wanted to be a pilot since childhood, but bad eyesight precluded that dream. Instead, after graduating from England's University of Buckingham in 1989, he began a job as a check-in agent at London's Gatwick Airport. He was hired just for summer vacation, but he wound up being promoted to flight dispatcher and manager of general operations and spending four years there.
Sergio Garcia
December 1, 2011
Sergio Garcia
Although he has experienced low points as well as triumphs during his golfing career, Sergio Garcia has earned more than $27 million since going professional in 1999 and has regularly placed in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings.
Jared Isaacman
December 1, 2011
Jared Isaacman
When NBC's Today Show profiled Jared Isaacman in 2006, a reporter asked his father to name the biggest obstacle his son had faced in building his nationwide credit-card processing firm. The answer: "His inability to drive."

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“You want to make sure with a race in which you'll be flying home with other drivers that you don't crash into them. It's happened before, and it can make for a little bit of a tense situation.”

-Racecar driver Helio Castroneves