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From the article "Owning a Private Jet is Cheap" at
http://ezinearticles.com/?Owning-a-P...eap&id=1007987 : "Owning your own jet may not be as unrealistic as you may have thought. There are now thousands of business executives, athletes, and celebrities flying their own personal jets every day. The idea of having this personal mode of transportation is no longer for just the billionaires and world leaders. .....A small jet that could carry 4-8 passengers would usually cost between $3 to $4 million dollars about a decade ago, but now it could be yours for roughly $1 million." DUDE! I had no idea that for a measily million dollars I wouldn't have to stand in line at the airport! I wonder how much I could get for my jeep, my boat, my house, my retirement, my kidney... ...no, I probably need that to pass the physical to fly the jet... What has the entire American middle class and the other 98% of the world been THINKING, man? Jets are CHEAP! "Next time you are on a crowded plane and looking down at your small cup of soda and the ridiculously small portion of old pretzels, just remember you could be flying in style in your own relatively affordable jet." Here's an even more reasonable idea: Buy half a million dollars of pretzels and soda and use the other half million for air travel. That way, you'll always have pretzels and soda. -c |
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On Mar 13, 8:29*pm, "gatt" wrote:
....A small jet that could carry 4-8 passengers would usually cost between $3 to $4 million dollars about a decade ago, but now it could be yours for roughly $1 million." I looked up the latest number of millionaires in the US and found 9.2 millions of them. There are 1.16 millions household with networth more than $5 million http://tinyurl.com/2g6yge For these households, a jet costing only one million is quite affordable. Besides most likely many of them are business owners and can easily write off most of the cost to business operating expenses. Just ask Jay how it is done ;-) One of my former flight instructors who was a retired college professor but had nice consulting business bought a spanking new Bonanza with all the gizmos for 0.64 millions two years ago. It was before Bonanza lower the price to half a million or so. I may be one of them jet owners someday when I finally break down and spend a buck on a lottery ticket. Hey, you never know ;-) Hai Longworth |
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On Mar 13, 5:29 pm, "gatt" wrote:
From the article "Owning a Private Jet is Cheap" athttp://ezinearticles.com/?Owning-a-Private-Jet-is-Cheap&id=1007987: "Owning your own jet may not be as unrealistic as you may have thought. There are now thousands of business executives, athletes, and celebrities flying their own personal jets every day. The idea of having this personal mode of transportation is no longer for just the billionaires and world leaders. The last thing anyone needs is everybody buying their own plane. Where I live, the skies are 100% booked each weekend with private planes flying above me. There is already no room and too much noise from those already up there! |
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... The last thing anyone needs is everybody buying their own plane. Where I live, the skies are 100% booked each weekend with private planes flying above me. There is already no room and too much noise from those already up there! I wanna move there!!!! |
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"Steve Foley" wrote: wrote in message ... The last thing anyone needs is everybody buying their own plane. Where I live, the skies are 100% booked each weekend with private planes flying above me. There is already no room and too much noise from those already up there! I wanna move there!!!! Sounds pretty good to me, too. |
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The last thing anyone needs is everybody buying their own plane.
Where I live, the skies are 100% booked each weekend with private planes flying above me. There is already no room and too much noise from those already up there! That's the sound of freedom and prosperity. Where in hell does this guy live? GA flying is almost non-existent over 95% of America. Must live under the approach end of a busy commercial airport... -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in
news:O7qNj.122862$yE1.57647@attbi_s21: The last thing anyone needs is everybody buying their own plane. Where I live, the skies are 100% booked each weekend with private planes flying above me. There is already no room and too much noise from those already up there! That's the sound of freedom and prosperity. Where in hell does this guy live? GA flying is almost non-existent over 95% of America. God you're an idiot. Bertie |
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On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:50:54 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote: Where in hell does this guy live? GA flying is almost non-existent over 95% of America. I live in the 5%, here in Central CT. At any given time on a nice day, I can see at least (3) single engine aircraft in flight, and often one bizjet. I live 15 miles from the nearest airport, but there are (5) paved and one grass strip inside of 25 miles, and a total of (8) within 35. My house is on the north end of a practice area used by many schools. I can watch stalls and steep turns from my deck. |
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