Jay Boehmer at Business Traveler Online News has a very good summary article of the state of the current business jet marketplace in the U.S., and near-term directions for the market in an article entitled "Very Light Jets Preparing For Takeoff In The U.S."
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Just a quick update on where we stand with a new Jersey Boys Podcast. I am still recovering from feeling under the weather over the last week which caused me to get a sore throat and a cough. In addition, I had to go on a quick business trip from San Diego to Washington DC, and that has cause some work load backup.
I was able on Sunday afternoon to completely produce the content for the next podcast, but my voice is still not ideal and I’m going to postpone recording the next podcast until things sound better.
There will definitely be a new Jersey Boys Podcast by Oct. 29th.
Thanks for all the support and great feedback. — Steve
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Ardent Acquisition Corp’s Avantair (a fractional aircraft shares provider) has reportedly placed a $57 million order with Embraer for 20 Phenom 100 executive jets that should begin to see service in June 2009.
Avantair "currently manages a fleet of 25 planes with another 58 on order in five states and with approximately 250 employees."
Source: bizjournal
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National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) is publishing podcasts on a variety of topics from their 2006 convention.
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The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Convention 2006 was held recently. Here is a summary of new articles related to the convention that may be of interest: jobwerx, bizjournal, orlandosentinel, and Honeywell search at flightglobal.
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The combo of open source and virtual machines is really providing some powerful options for rapid evaluation and prototyping.
Here is an example … "Want to do some network management?" … then download the $10 PDF of "Network Monitoring with Nagios", then get the VMWARE Player, and then check out the Nagios appliance deployment for VMWARE.
In a couple of clicks, your up and running and ready to do some network management. If you like what you see, a couple of file transfers, and some more clicks, and you can be in production mode. Nice.
Thanks to a recent HomeNetworkHelp.info podcast for getting my thoughts moving in this direction.
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So I travel on Monday feeling under the weather. I think I get about 10 hours of sleep on Monday night, and wake up on Tuesday feeling about the same first way as I did on Monday. A cup of coffee, a series of nose blows, and a really hot shower, get me into an operational mode and cruise through PowerPoint until I have to get to the offices for the program review.
When I walk in, its been changed from 1400-1600 to 1430-1530. By 1430, it has been changed to 1445-1530, and the main decision makers all have to leave at exactly 1530 to make another meeting in a different location by 1600. And we have been moved from the conference room with working A/V equipment into an executive office with no working A/V. So it is just my little Toshiba M400 screen, and quickly printed (ink still wet) handouts.
Then as I start my presentation, I learn that the 1530 exit time also requires the decision makers get interrupted about every 8-10 minutes for 1 or 2 minutes to review some documents that they need to take with them at 1530. Now that was probably the biggest challenge of all that I have faced so far in the day, because having to rewind/recap before moving on is not something I’ve really experienced a lot of in the past.
But hey, that is the job, and I got through it in time for questions and decisions. I’m not even remotely bothered by this type of chaos, but I could tell others in the room were. Things like this usually work themselves out in the end.
Bottom-line, the focused feedback when the decision makers were engaged was positive, the financial numbers were not ideal but are all workable, the workload is doable, and all-in-all its probably a great program review because no one is yelling and screaming. Smiles all around the room. Take it when you can!
I head back to the hotel and fall asleep for 12 hours, and wake up basically feeling the same way as Monday and Tuesday. The good news is that Wednesday had no hard deliverables or meetings, just a plane trip home in the evening Which goes pretty well, but I land with a major headache that was cured by a Starbuck’s Cafe Mocha and some aspirin.
It is now Thursday morning, and I woke up feeling much better than the other three days that if it was any other week would have been rarely used sick days. Happy trails are now again on the horizon … now back to work …
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I’d like to point out a new site I’ve created to be more of a focal point for my content related to ‘podcasting’ and ‘new media’ in a bigger sense.
It is AztecMedia.net.
I am going to be moving nearly all of my blog discussions related to podcasting over to that site for a more focused reflection of my thoughts and ideas related to this medium.
I hope you’ll accept my request for a context switch on your part as a reader of sholden.typepad.com to AztecMedia.net if you are interested in following that discussion topic.
Regular programming minus the above will continue on sholden.typepad.com for the indefinite future.
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The primary topic in today’s podcast is on mobile gear from articles published in recent editions of: PC Magazine, Wired, MaximumPC, and Edutopia.
Links to products mentioned in this podcast include:
- Bose QuietComfort2
& QuietComfort3 headphones
- Creative Zen V Plus 2-GB audio player
- ThinkOutside BoomTube H20 portable speakers
- Apple 8-GB iPod Nano player
- SanDisk Sansa e260
- iRiver Clix 2-GB audio player
- COWON iAudio 6 audio player
- Archos 104 with 4-GB audio player
- Archos 604 with 30-GB multimedia player
- Belkin WiFi Phone for Skype
- Netgear SPH101 WiFi phone for Skype
- UTStarcom F100 Wifi phone for Vonage
During this podcast we also review Internet movie download services, if you have any experiences you’d like to share about Internet movie sites (like CinemaNow, Apple iTunes, MovieLink, or Amazon Unbox) then please join the discussion at Forums.FriendsInTech.com.
This podcast is produced by AztecMedia.net and sponsored by: SCOTTEVEST (SeV) – makers of fine tech clothing and TradePub.com with free eWeek subscriptions.
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I woke up this morning feeling absolutely terrible. But as time moved on in the day, I got to a point where I figured I could make my scheduled trip (1300 PST flight) to Washington DC for my program review with my sponsor.
Program reviews … especially when they include details and decisions on Fiscal Year 2007 … is not something a IT project manager really wants to miss. But boy did I consider it after I woke up.
The trip turned out to be fine. But I am exhausted and headed for bed. The good news is that the meeting isn’t until 1400 EST so I can sleep in and work on slides from the hotel until around 1100.
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