To Create, to Disrupt, and to Build Success from Failure
I am seeking funds to make the business of business aviation work financially for everyone; You, me, aircraft owners, aircraft operators, i.e., everyone involved. It will work. It is not expensive. It is not risky to actually create a massively profitable, low risk system that will change everything about the way business aviation always should have been done from the start!
Rarely is there an opportunity to benefit from failure, but it does happen, and when it does, it comes with overwhelming advantages. Specifically knowing EXACTLY what the miscalculations and missed opportunities have been of those that failed before creates ENORMOUS OPPORTUNITY. Most importantly, understanding why business aviation has failed in making MASSIVE REVENUES for all involved is what brings us to exactly the opportunity we have here.
Business aviation today is at best flaccid, Inefficient, and expensive. It operates on the fundamental principle of going along to get along. Every day there is a slightly different version of yesterday’s last new version that at best, just limps along, or at worst fails completely.
Changing a system that has never been profitable, worked correctly or has ever been efficient is not for first responders to change. First responders are not innovative, creative, or visionary. First responders go along to get along. They are not disruptors or visionaries! Their “ideas” are never ever profitable.
The going-along-to-get-along flaw in aviation exists for all intents and purposes, because everyone thinks it takes zillions of dollars to be in the aviation business. That of course is a natural reaction if operating jet aircraft is the goal. That perception is where it all starts to go wrong.
It is natural for investors to fall quarry to the “wow” factor; The “wow” factor is a disastrous condition that triggers the bling response to shiny objects like jet airplanes. This generates the unfortunate side effect of the ever-present and always fatal “catch 22”.
The catch 22 starts with the natural response for an Investor to protect their money. To accomplish that faux guarantee, they will always do what they always do, which is to hire MBAs to run their airplane companies. MBAs understand money, but not how to make money operating jet aircraft. That is step one to failure. Step two to failure is not understanding who, what, or why people use private aircraft. Step three to failure is always lack of vision.
Those three steps are exactly the reason why business aviation is, and has been, stuck in 1962 (that I know of), and are all interconnected and include lack of innovation, creativity, and vision. In other words, no one ever did the one thing that can and will make the business of business aviation massively profitable. Innovate and connect the dots.
I am a real pilot that has over 21,000 PIC hours and I have created two aviation companies, one in 1969 and the other in 1989 and both are globally known, and both are still operating today.
Companies I have created from scratch include Mid-West Air Charter at the specific request of the Federal reserve Bank in 1969. To accomplish the system they required, I created Mid-West Air Charter which went on to become Airborne and is known today as DHL. In between 1976 and 1988, I was the chief pilot for Mercedes Benz North America for 12 years. In 1988/89 I saw an issue that needed to be corrected so I left Benz and created and co-founded Jet Support Services inc., aka JSSI. Today JSSI is the world’s largest non-OEM supplier of jet engine services.
So, unlike others in the business of business aviation, I do not suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect of wanting to be accepted by the aviation community. I am a proven commodity, and I just happened to know how to make business aviation work the way it always should have worked. I have Just been waiting for the perfunctory technology to catch up. It is now here, and the time is ripe to reap the benefits of other’s past failures. No more going-along-to-get-along with a false sense of security. No more me tooisms. No more failures. Just massive, never-ending, efficient profits for everyone concerned.
The unique changes and advances I will introduce will be beneficial to everyone across the industry. It will make money for aircraft owners, operators, and this operation. This system will generate zero liabilities, zero risk, and most Importantly for any aviation system, there are zero unknowns.
What this system will do is the one thing everyone currently in the business of business aviation has been unable to do, or to sustain. Together, we WILL establish a massive money-making feedback loop that will solve the number one problem that has evaded all of business aviation for the last 60 years, profitability.
For details contact Rick Eriksen
