My thoughts

[Pervis]

http://robbreport.com/HolidayGiftGu...e-travelers/aerion-as2-supersonic-private-jet

Laughable. Throw out the scraps while dangling the beef Wellington and actually hook the naive. Even the dumbest dork in the group will eventually see through the haze.

 

[rajflyboy]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=RD6vwNcNOTVzY&params=OALAAQE%3D&v=6vwNcNOTVzY

 

[UncleKenn]

I welcome everyone to attend and honor me.
Ricci, Lacy To Be Honored as Aviation Living Legends Directional Aviation Capital principal Kenn Ricci and veteran aviator and business aviation executive Clay Lacy are among the honorees of the 14th Annual Living Legends of Aviation Awards. They will be recognized at an event on January 20 at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California.
Ricci, who has built a multifaceted business aviation portfolio that includes fractional ownership provider Flexjet, along with Flight Options, Constant Aviation and Nextant Aerospace, among others, will be presented the Lifetime Aviation Entrepreneur Award. “With Kenn’s vision and leadership, Directional Capital is an umbrella facilitator creating efficiencies in fractional aircraft ownership, aircraft management as well as services, which has incrementally improved the entire industry,” award organizers said.
Lacy will be the recipient of the Bob Hoover Freedom of Flight Award, a selection made by Bob Hoover himself before he died on October 25. Over the years, Lacy has filled the roles of airline captain, military aviator, experimental test pilot, air-race champion, world record-setter, aerial cinematographer and business aviation entrepreneur. He has flown more than 300 aircraft types and logged more than 50,000 flight hours.

Credit to AIN

 

[doh]

Living Legends of Aviation, reported in AIN...sounds like a made up group to generate bogus press. Are they "military trained"?

 

[rettofly]

January 20, eh?

They're trying to distract from the end of the reign of King Barack (PBUH).

 

[Imissmypilot]

January 20, eh?

They're trying to distract from the end of the reign of King Barack (PBUH).

Ha. Your post just reminded me:

http://www.worth.com/20-questions-kenn-ricci/

I'm sure the interview was given pre-election; back when he thought ass kissing Hillary and disclosing a traitoress trip to North Korea would be cool in a few months.

This guy is a ********************ing joke and any pilot not supporting a union because of their "conservative" or "religious" values in favor of this snowflake spawn of Satan is kidding themselves.

 

[Imissmypilot]

Oh and for all you libs who think the article should ingratiate Kenn to you, read more closely. He also said he LOVED Cape Town in the early 90s.

For you history buffs out there, you'll quickly remember Capetown was a bloody disgusting mess during the earlyb90s because of a little thing called apartheid.

This guy is truly a first rate ***********************************.

 

[Brit]

He also said he LOVED Cape Town in the early 90s.

For you history buffs out there, you'll quickly remember Capetown was a bloody disgusting mess during the earlyb90s because of a little thing called apartheid.
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So are the inner cities of Detroit and Chicago. What's your point?

 

[Imissmypilot]

So are the inner cities of Detroit and Chicago. What's your point?

The whole article strikes me as stupid hubris. He comes out on the wrong side of every issue; a very bad PR game for someone in a sales and service industry. Better to keep your mouth shut. My POINT is he carries the success or failure of this company (and by default our futures) into these interviews with him and he appears unequipped to do so with any real care.

Detroit and Chicago do not and will never carry the same stigma of apartheid and what CapeTown was like in the early 90s. It's akin saying you'd like to jump into a time machine to go back to a plantation the early 1800s. That's the kind of wish you should keep to yourself.

 

[993_Pilot]

Kenn Ricci & Clay Lacy are cut from the same cloth. Both have admirable accomplishments, but they are unsatisfied by them. Lacy claims to have 50,000 hours. That would be an average of 1,000 hrs./Yr. for 50 years... gimme a friggin' break. That's about as likely as KR being military trained. Their ego's both remind me of that of our president elect.

 

[GlorifiedCabbie]

An older article, but it still applies. Isn't it appropriate that this event on January 20, is being held in Beverly Hills?
U.S.
Up, Down, In and Out in Beverly Hills: Rats

By CHARLIE LEDUFF


''Beverly Hills is a nice place to be a rat,'' Ray Honda explained, admiring the cool, verdant landscape of the moneyed class, with its fruit trees, bird feeders, swimming pools and dog-food bowls. ''It's a very good address.''
Mr. Honda, a Los Angeles County health inspector whose speech and demeanor bring Peter Lorre to mind, was quick to append, ''the four-legged kind,'' adding: ''More rats than people, probably. And when they get really bad you can smell them.''
Across Beverly Hills and the other lush corridors of Los Angeles, rats -- yellow-bellied, pink-tailed, flea-bitten rats -- are wriggling through the woodwork and rooftops. They have come down from the trees and in from the fields, forced into neighborhoods by a strangling drought that has gripped the region. They are eating from dog bowls and drinking from swimming pools and acting in surly ways not normal to the genus.

 

[UncleKenn]

For those of you that missed it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfD6GOQMThs&feature=youtu.be

 

[doh]

Those that can, do. Those that cannot, teach. Unsurprisingly, 2N is teaching ethics.

 

[Imissmypilot]

Those that can, do. Those that cannot, teach. Unsurprisingly, 2N is teaching ethics.

Excellent point!

Another hypocrisy: he literally gives away 10k at the beginning of his presentation ($100 to 100 people) supposedly as an ethics lesson but in reality this is just part of his style: buying adoration.

Here's what is most intetesting: according to his speech, if anything he says is to be believed, he actually has disdain for the Red Label pilots and those of their ilk who will compromise whats right for money but he will use this human fault to achieve his goal.

Chew on that for a momemt. In his presentation he is admitting his ultimate goal is to control EVERYONE under him by manipulating the worst aspects of people.

That should scare the $hit of of everyone who works for him.

Now that you know the hidden secret, listen again and see if you don't get chills. The man is completely morally corrupt. And yet we should be unionized, right?

If we don't rallly now, before this arbritrator decides, we are in deep deep doo-doo when it comes to negotiating section 6. From what my sources are telling me our lack of solidarity is sure to affect what the arbritrator gives us. Without solidarity we will have to live with less than we could habe gotten for years if we don't belly up to the bar and get to brass tacks.

 

[doh]

I'm not sure if he ever had any respect for our profession...maybe very early on, but certainly not for a long time. And the other scumbags on this management team have never had any respect for our profession. Yet they wonder why we don't show them the deference they believe they deserve.

 

[NJAowner]

He must use the same cosmetic dentist as BaBaBooey.

 

[shanes123]

LMAO...Thats hilarious NJAOWNER

 

[GlorifiedCabbie]

Talk about full of $hit. He gets on stage and one of the first things he claims is "I've never been convicted of an ethics violation". Doesn't mean you are not guilty of at least one, just not convicted. You are good at letting others take the fall for you. You're really a nice guy. I'm glad I didn't sell my soul like JS,JW, BS and CH. I feel sorry for you guys because, you know he considers you expendable.

 

[realist101]

This is exactly why, about 2003 Options started to lose lots of pilots. After the merger with Travel Air and realization of how the pilot seniority merger was going to work out - LOADS of pilots protested the deal with their feet. Sometime about 2005 when Ricci was booted and new management took over, the evacuation of pilots became even more dramatic. A true rage to riches to rags story here.

 

[GlorifiedCabbie]

Pilots are walking out of this place with no notice.