Brazilian Adventure – Day 5
We started the day with optimism but got an ice cold shower when we learned that the FAA had found an “issue” at 2 PM the prior day (and did not notify anyone until late morning the next day). The “issue” was that the paperwork about the company buying the airplane showed that the company […]
Brazilian Adventure – Day 4
The Embraer team must have worked all night — by mid-morning of Day 4 they had cleared 80 of the 103 squawks on the Phenom 100. Mark Stear of JetQuik continued his due diligence working with Marcelo while Paulo ramped activities on the paperwork side of the process. The steps ahead were to sign off […]
Brazilian Adventure – Day 3
Captain Bill Minkoff already had 100+ hours of flight time in the Phenom 100 but I think he was as enthusiastic as I to take the plane for a workout. And a workout it was. The initial climb to 41,000 feet took about a half hour. Once at a reduced speed, Bill put down the landing […]
Brazilian Adventure – Day 2
The flight arrived on time in Sao Paulo and things went smoothly through immigration and customs. An Embraer driver was waiting to take me up to San Jose dos Campos — about 75 miles north of Sao Paulo. Sao Jose dos Campos is a city of more than 600,000 people and headquarters of Embraer, the […]
Brazilian Adventure – Day 1
It was a great summer and now it seems so long ago. September was a blur with board meetings, charitable events, a high school reunion, the marriage of one of my sons, a trip to Demo in San Diego with a stopover along the way in Telluride with some friends, and then the business trip […]
