TABLE OF CONTENTS Flying Bobby Flay May/June 2008 It's Flay! As in Bobby, TV's friendliest food phenom, NetJets' most loyal nonpaying customer and a man on the verge of a jet card. Trip of a Lifetime Turns out the finest way to fly around the world in 80 days is to make it in 70. South Africa He's perhaps the best bush pilot in Africa, the one who teaches the other fliers -- and the occasional writer -- how it's done. But when he has a midlife crisis, it's a doozy.

Carry-On
By Nick Kolakowski | Page 36
Look, up in the sky! It’s a carry-on! It’s a briefcase! It’s . . . both! > read more

Equipment Check
By Jonathan Lesser | Page 42
The golf shoe already good enough for the most exacting man in the game has just gotten better. > read more

Ground Speed
Extreme Makeover
By Glenn Derene | Page 32
When is a $47,000 Corvette not a Corvette? When it’s a souped-up, high-flying 600-horsepower Callaway ’Vette. > read more

Private Air Cocktail
Southern Comfort
By Jeffery Lindenmuth | Page 34
Run for the roses whenever you fly with this superlative mint julep. > read more

Shades
No Substitute
By Nick Kolakowski | Page 38
Whether pushing the sound barrier or the land-speed record, these sleek Porsche shades are built to fly.  > read more

Smoking Section
Cuba, Libre
By Nick Kolakowski | Page 40
Behold a legendary Cuban leaf, grown in Honduras — and raised to be smoked at FL410.  > read more

Iron Man Air
By Roxanne Downer | Page 152
The creator of this summer’s most popular wearable aircraft tries his hand at something a little more spacious. > read more

Mountain Homes
Gaining Altitude
By Nick Kolakowski | Page 63
Heading for the hills has never been more inviting. > read more

Best Excuse
So You Can Finally Learn to Fly
By Nick Kolakowski | Page 18
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Rewind
El Piloto’s Revenge
By Scott Eden | Page 23
As Fidel Castro fades from the scene, an old friend plots a long-awaited return. > read more

Calendar
Principally Monaco
By Sara Behunek | Page 26
Sail into summer at Europe’s jet-settiest dot on the map, a lowlands cultural staple and the yummiest of wine luaus. > read more

Fast Forward
Fall From Space
| Page 27
Bored with racing cars at suicidal speeds? Swimming with sharks? Soon you might be able to skydive from 22 miles up. > read more

Q&A Air
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Armchair Pilot
Drivers Wanted
By Nick Kolakowski | Page 25
A mod for those who have always viewed the highway as wasted tarmac space. > read more

My Plane, My Shuffle
Dallas Austin
By Hilary Lewis | Page 25
What the guy behind the gals listens to when it’s just him in the clouds. > read more

The Scene
Well Played
By Sara Behunek | Page 16
A milestone celebration at golf’s biggest fly-in fetes a true Master. > read more

Over The Top
By Nick Kolakowski | Page 28
$3 billion worth of orders is betting that the old Donald Fagen song wasn’t too far off. > read more

Trip Of A Lifetime
The Vacation That Just Keeps Going
By Roxanne Downer | Page 29
Turns out the finest way to fly around the world in 80 days is to make it in 70. > read more

You Are Here
Da Bears
By Roxanne Downer | Page 20
At this fly-in lodge, everyone has salmon on the brain. Including some 900-pound guys who really need a shave. > read more

Avionomics
Now That’s a Tax Cut
By Gary I. Horowitz | Page 136
Buried in the recent economic stimulus package is a provision you might find interesting.  > read more

Forget Bill Gates . . . Is That The AN-225?
By Neil Rabinowitz | Page 158
At Boeing Field, it’s a star-studded affair all around. > read more

Flight Services
Ready to Fly Your VLJ?
By Lyn Freeman | Page 2
Are you sure? You may find it’s more difficult to get yourself into these new jet cockpits than you thought. But help is on the way. > read more

Test Flight
Escape From "Alcatraz"
| Page 142
When you really need to get to the island — or off it — nothing comes close to the Cessna Caravan 208 Amphibian. > read more

Chile
The Son Also Rises
By Neil Rabinowitz | Page 48
Let the Kennedys have the colorado. To really test your gang’s whitewater mettle, airlift your next family-bonding trip down to the Fu.  > read more

Sardinia
The Island Formerly Known As the Prince’s
By Mike Guy | Page 55
Built by the Aga Khan, Sardinia’s Costa Smeralda has become the favored playground of today’s little-red-Maserati and private-jet crowd.  > read more

Patagonian River Escapes Volcano's Wrath
By David Perry
Though nearby towns have been evacuated, whitewater Mecca Futaleufu remains open for business. > read more

*It's Flay!
What’s The Past Tense of Fly for Free?*
| Page 68
As in Bobby, TV's friendliest food phenom, NetJets' most loyal nonpaying customer and a man on the verge of a jet card. > read more

Fashion
Heat Seekers
| Page 82
You’ve got the coordinates. The plane. The gal. Now all you need is a smooth approach in a pared-down wardrobe as laid-back and chic as the newly hot Caribbean island of Anguilla. > read more

South Africa
Bush Pilot Blues
By Scott Eden | Page 74
He’s perhaps the best bush pilot in Africa, the one who teaches the other fliers – and the occasional writer – how it’s done. But when he has a midlife crisis, it’s a doozy. > read more

Previously » Feb/March 2008