Buckle Up: A Different Flight Path This Week

Welcome to the Twelfth Edition of Airplane Mode - this week I’m balancing a family life, a business life, a third baby on the way in a few short months, and trying to nurture relationships to various degrees of success all the while - as I'm sure many of you can relate to. This week will be brief on purpose, and just barely scratch the surface until next week when we go BIG! I only want to provide you with top-tier quality, and value and intrigue that you won’t find elsewhere. Would it be a crazy idea to ask you to take a moment and fill out the poll below, letting me know what you'd rather NOT discuss? Alternatively, is now a bad time to drop a comment, send an email, or DM me about what truly interests you? By doing so, you help tailor future editions to your interests, ensuring that every issue delivers value directly to you.

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Airplane Mode Dives Deep: The MH370 Mystery

Next week, we are going to dive off into an ongoing series. It will get weird, but it’s not without merit. With all respect to the families of the victims, the victims, and anyone else harmed by the tragedy of this missing aircraft and the weird trail it left behind, we will proceed to deep dive into some BREAKING developments in this case. It should be noted I have spent my entire adult life quietly observing strange phenomenon without much judgement, solely weighing claims (preposterous and otherwise) on their merit, and I will continue to do the same, you all are welcome to join. If we are to walk this path together there are some ground rules I would like you to consider exercising that I have found particularly helpful emotionally and intellectually:

1. Judge the weight of the evidence by itself (Res ipsa loquitur).
2. Exclude casting doubt on personalities solely to discredit an entire theory, unless material to the weight of the evidence, or a piece of evidence (Argumentum ad hominem).
3. Challenge existing frameworks and ideologies. Not for fun, to find the truth. (Veritas quaerenda).

I hold to no particular opinion on MH370 at this time and I encourage that we respect others with opinions that differ (shame I need to add this line in today's world). There will be plenty of varying opinions - and that’s quite alright by me! Why am I writing on this topic? Extreme intrigue and I see the totality of the evidence and have a hunch there is far more to the story (as if that’s not obvious) - it has intrigued me since the day it happened all those years ago.

Let’s go! Next week - we all blast off on this rocket ship! This could be a turning point for our society????

Start with the below. A screen recording of a Citrix session from someone who had access to the satellite video that was recording MH370…. How would you capture and share a screen recording without getting caught? This would be a video feed that is top secret and compartmentalized. In all likelihood, you'd be caught and end up in prison. More on that in the weeks to come..

The tip of the spear, until next week:

How I Got Sharper This Week

Need the Pulse on Private Aviation? Craig Picken tapped into the wisdom & insight of Vincent Kavanagh, EVP @ Four Corners Aviation. Don’t Miss It.

Jet Blast Podcast (Nov. 15th, 2020) - Andy Nixon, Lee Brewster, and Nathan Winkle Dive Into Change Management Gold with FBI Agent Amy Grubb (iTunes & Spotify links)

Tom Lelyo on “Which Light Jet is The Best” regards to Citation v. Premier v. Phenom 100:

Ace Update

Ace doesn’t know what happened to MH370 - but he doesn’t need to, he knows the story will come out, it almost always does. Ace subscribes to George Washington’s outlook on life at large, to include his thoughts on truth "Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light."

“Goodnight, Malaysian Three Seven Zero”

― Pilot of Missing Flight MH370

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