Archive for the ‘Private Air Magazine’ Category
A Moveable Feast (Private Air: Aug/Sep 2008)
A Moveable Feast: Years of cooking on the go leads to a rare treat indeed.
For an admittedly nervous flyer, Laurent Tourondel sure knows his way around a galley. Maybe it’s the year the chef behind the popular Manhattan eatery BLT Steak spent cooking up cabbage and potatoes in the French Navy. Or his later tour of duty in the early ’90s as the chef aboard the Honey Fitz, the legendary private yacht that once belonged to the Kennedys. Or maybe it’s just in his genes (although a certified Xanax flier himself, his father was a private pilot).
The $1.3 Million Vacation (Private Air: Aug/Sep 2008)
The $1.3 Million Vacation: An Asian golf outing might set some sort of new record.
If you’re bored with the links at St. Andrews and Pebble is passé, one California-based company thinks it has the golf vacation for you. This past spring, food-and-wine events impresarios Angel’s Share began offering a private jet golf vacation through Asia that may just be the most luxe — and priciest — golf excursion of your life. How pricey, you ask? How’s an even $1.3 million sound? Read the rest of this entry »
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.
Greenhouse Effect (Private Air: Mar/Apr 2008)
Greenhouse Effect: At the new wave of eco-friendly seaside communities, the coast is definitely clear.
It’s not easy being green for the man of means. With Al Gore polishing his Nobel Prize and the History Channel airing episodes about the tsunamis and the global fireball that might result if the planet doesn’t get its act together soon, we’ve all gotten the point about reducing our carbon footprint. It’s just that some of us start out with bigger feet than others. You likely already own a Prius and carry your groceries home from Whole Foods in chic canvas bags.
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Property for Sale, Four Ecosystems (Private Air: Mar/Apr 2008)
Property for Sale, Four Ecosystems: Forget a private island. What you need is a place like this.
It’s a rare country that can lay claim to more than 650 varieties of birds, a breed of nearly endangered wolves and its own subspecies of jaguar. So what would you say about a single address that can? Located on the edge of the Pantanal wetlands in central Brazil, Fazenda Santo Antonio do Paraiso is a 400-square-mile ranch that encompasses four distinct ecosystems, along with two rivers — the Piquiri and the Itiquira — that surround the property like a moat. With six landing strips on-site, it’s also remarkably accessible. And it could all be yours for $50 million.
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The Challenger (Private Air: Mar/Apr 2008)
The Challenger: Top Chef’s Casey Thompson
It was the crusher, the challenge that separated the woman from the boys. The final six contestants on Top Chef Season 3 were flown from their swank Miami pad to the Continental Airlines hangar at Newark airport, led to the comissary and given their assignment: wow the judges with a business-class meal on a Boeing 777. Read the rest of this entry »
Whatever Burkes (Private Air: Dec/Jan 2008)
Whatever Burkes: A master of cooking in high places shares one of his favorite recipes
Gone Fishin’ (Private Air: Dec/Jan 2008)
Gone Fishin’: This angler’s paradise is truly in the middle of nowhere.
For centuries, Panama’s mythic Darien Jungle has simultaneously intrigued and terrified everyone from conquistador Vasco Balboa to Romantic poet John Keats. Referred to by one sixteenth-century traveler as an “abyss and horror,” the isthmus that connects the Americas remains shrouded in mystery even today — in no small part because it’s where the otherwise uninterrupted Pan-American Highway stops dead in its tracks. But concealed in this sultry terrain of dense forest is a coastal oasis where bikini-clad fishing-show hosts and the mayor of Margaritaville reel in the big ones. Read the rest of this entry »
