TABLE OF CONTENTS Secret Jets Fan Terry Bradshaw December 2007 The Lears of a Clown After years of putting a smile on his face, TV analyst and Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw is finally laughing on the inside, too. And it doesn't hurt that every time he takes off in his own Mach .7 jet, it's (almost) free. Gift Guide If the child is the father of the man, you can bet he's also the pops of the pilot, jet owner or fractional-share member. For the little boy inside every plane lover at the top of your list, here's the ultimate price-is-no-object guide to making sure the season is flight. Underwater Plane It is among the most amazing winged craft the world has ever seen. Part-airplane, part-submarine. It will soon carry the Silicon Valley billionaire who was supposed to be its second customer to the bottom of the sea. Now the delicate questions remains: Who gets the first one?

Whatever Burkes
Galley
By Roxanne Downer | Page 34
A master of cooking in high places shares one of his favorites. > read more

Single Wing
Equipment Check
By Jonathan Lesser | Page 38
Behold the snowboard of the future. Doesn’t look so different? That’s because you can’t see a self-healing edge in print. > read more

Flying Solo
Ground Speed
By Matt Carroll | Page 32
How to stand apart from the riffraff on the tarmac? Set yourself down in an Invicta S1-600. > read more

Space Cowboy
Shades
By Nick Kolakowski | Page 36
Even at the highest altitude, these aviators walk the line between high fashion and high performance. > read more

If You Like to Watch
The System
By Nick Kolakowski | Page 42
The (sensible) way to bring the future of in-flight viewing into your cabin. > read more

Smooth Landing
Uniform
By Nick Kolakowski
No matter how turbulent or transcontinental your flight, this elegant suit jacket will arrive in style. > read more

Top Gun
Private Air Cocktail
By Jefferey Lindenmuth | Page 35
A superior Cognac and a select Champagne create a potent weapon. > read more

Should Auld Acquaintance . . .
Fitting Tributes to a legend and a new friend.
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Gift Guide
Toy Story
| Page 80
If the child is the father of the man, you can bet he’s also the pops of the pilot, jet owner or fractional-share member. For the little boy inside every plane lover at the top of your list, here’s the ultimate price-is-no-object guide to making sure the season is flight. > read more

The Lears of a Clown
By Nick Kolakowski | Page 68
After years of putting a smile on his face, TV analyst and Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw is finally laughing on the inside, too. And it doesn’t hurt that every time he takes off in his own Mach .7 jet, it’s (almost) free. > read more

Underwater Plane
Steve Fossett's Last Toy
By Scott Eden | Page 2
It is among the most amazing winged craft the world has ever seen. Part-airplane, part-submarine. It will soon carry the Silicon Valley billionaire who was supposed to be its second customer to the bottom of the sea. Now the delicate questions remains: Who gets the first one? > read more

Charge It!
Flying by the Numbers
By Amanda Prischak | Page 136
A G4 for isn’t just a plane, it’s a shopping cart full of free stuff. > read more

A Boom of One’s Own
Art of Flight
By Nick Kolakowski | Page 21
Buying a piece of the Concorde, just for posterior’s sake. > read more

Gone Fishin'
This angler’s paradise is truly in the middle of nowhere.
By Roxanne Downer | Page 21
More than 250 world-record fish have been hooked in these waters since the late 1920s, when American adventure novelist Zane Grey discovered the nearby reef that now bears his name. > read more

The Dreamliner
Sketchpad
By Nick Kolakowski | Page 118
Private Air asks the world’s most luxe yacht and plane designer to help it get a little carried away. > read more

A Copter to Go With Your Tie
Over the Top
By Nick Kolakowski | Page 24
Hermès and Eurocopter team up on a show-stopper. > read more

On a Wing and a Prayer
Earned Wings
By Eric Capper | Page 24
Led by the pilot son of a famous reverend, Samaritan’s Purse has become one jet-setting disaster relief corps. > read more

For Thee I Sing
The Scene
By Teri Buhl | Page 16
The Navy glee club performs for a Nashville Top Gun and his crowd. > read more

Q and Air
You don’t have to be a Hollywood A-lister to fulfill your Top Gun fantasies
By Amanda Prischak | Page 26
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Flythrough Country
Full Throttle
By Roxanne Downer | Page 19
The new wild, wild, wild way to see the West > read more

You Take a Fighter Jet to Work
Best Excuse for Owning a Plane
By Nick Kolakowski | Page 22
Hundreds of planes streak across the skies of the Northeast every day, but Jeff Marshall’s is the one that routinely makes other pilots holler “What was that?” to the nearest air-traffic controller. > read more

Armchair Pilot
On the Hotseat
By Nick Kolakowski | Page 17
The Gulfstream of simulators arrives just in time for the Xmas flight-geek season. > read more

Yours Ready to go
Best Excuse for Owning a Plane
By Nick Kolakowski | Page 17
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Ready for Kickoff
By Teri Buhl | Page 28
The procrastinator’s guide to the Super Bowl, the return of the Gilded Age and equestrian action with the Brits. > read more

The Factory-Certified Pre-Owned BMW of Planes
Avionomics
By Teri Buhl | Page 118
The after-market aviation industry learns a key lesson from the car business. > read more

Green Skies Ahead
Flight Services
By Hilary Lewis | Page 130
The new Gen Av carbon-offset programs let you have your jet and eat the heat-trapping gases it produces, too. > read more

Land of the Fee
Inside the Beltway
By Nick Kolakowski | Page 126
A seemingly innocuous FAA reg requiring tracking devices has many in the gen-av community up in arms. > read more

Covering the Spread
FBO Pick
By Eric Capper | Page 124
How underdog SheltAir Jacksonville bet that it could take on the Super Bowl . . . and won. > read more

Up and Adam
VIP Treatment
By Scott Eden | Page 132
VLJ shopping at the newly flush upstart Denver aircraft manufacturer. > read more

The Little Big Jet
Rater Event
By Nick Kolakowski | Page 120
Private Air readers try the Embraer Legacy 600 on for size > read more

One Perfect Day
Maui
By Josh McHugh | Page 46
A five-star resort, a helicopter, a boat, Jimmy Buffett’s personal surf coach and perhaps the most remote surf break in the United States. It adds up to . . > read more

The Martini
Los Angeles
By Ted Grennan | Page 54
What TV shows edit out is how difficult it can be to receive the Larry David treatment if you’re not Larry David. Several concierge services can help you close the celebrity gap... > read more

Paradise Found
Second Homes
By Nick Kolakowski , Roxanne Downer , Cristina Velocci | Page 60
At these new super-exclusive Caribbean hideaways, you never have to worry about the secret getting out. > read more

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