Archive for May 2008
Iron Man Air (Private Air: May/Jun 2008)
Iron Man Air: The creator of this summer’s most popular wearable aircraft tries his hand at something a little more spacious.
In Iron Man, when billionaire/genius inventor Tony Stark is kidnapped by baddies who try to force him to build WMD, he develops a suit of armor to fly through the sky like a missile. In Private Air, when the editors ask Phil Saunders, the concept co-designer behind all of the movie’s gadgets, to dream up a conveyance for battling the evils of commercial aviation, he develops this baby. Read the rest of this entry »
Da Bears (Private Air: May/Jun 2008)
Da Bears: At this fly-in lodge, everyone has salmon on the brain — including some 900-pound guys who really need a shave.
In Katmai National Park on the Alaskan peninsula, spring begins in June. That’s when the icy landscape starts to break up and droves of Pacific salmon — sockeye, chum, pink, silver and Chinook — navigate the long distance from the ocean to the tundra’s thawing tributaries. Read the rest of this entry »
The Vacation That Just Keeps Going (Private Air: May/Jun 2008)
The Vacation That Just Keeps Going: Turns out the finest way to fly around the world in 80 days is to make it in 70.
Hopping in the Lear for a brioche breakfast in Paris is probably something you’ve done once or twice. But have you ever followed that with lunch in Gibraltar and dinner in Marrakech? Doubtful unless you’re Phileas Fogg or one of the lucky few on Air Journey’s first around-the-world jaunt.
