Entrepreneurs and Aviation – Living Legends of Aviation.

by Nick on Jan.25, 2011, under Articles, Aviation, Aviation News, General, Video of the day

Each year at the Living Legends of Aviation event, the awards of “Aviation Entrepreneur of the Year” and the “Lifetime Aviation Entrepreneur” are given out.

This year the Aviation Entrepreneur of the Year Award was awarded to Lynn Tilton, as the first woman to receive it for her accomplishments in turning around MD Helicopters Inc as their CEO.

Click here or on the photo of her for a short video about her. Other recipients of this award include: (from most recent) Elon Musk, Linden Blue, HH Sheik Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Alan & Dale Klapmeier, Vern Raburn, Joe Clark and Rick Adams.

Joe Clark, who was the recipient of this award last year, covers the subject of entrepreneurship and aviation in the following video, which was shown at the Living Legends of Aviation event this year (2011).

You can watch the video by clicking here or on the picture below.

It was produced for the Living Legends of Aviation by Inventive Productions and starts out with the following statements from Mr Clark;

Joe Clark, courtesy of San Diego Air & Space Museum

“I think that aviation attract entrepreneurs. At least it certainly did in my case. Why, you know, entrepreneurs and aviation are almost one and the same.”

“Almost everyone I’ve known in my life in aviation has been an entrepreneur; people like Bill Lear, Clay Lacy, Steven Udvar-Hazy. They all kind of started without very much and had big dreams.”

“Entrepreneurs have a lot of drive and most entrepreneurs have a lot of failures getting to the top and so, you know, they have the ability to look back, learn from their mistakes and move forward.”

“An entrepreneur in my mind is someone who has a dream or an idea and has such focus that no matter what the obstacles are, they press ahead and make it happen.”

“Most people in aviation, they have such a passion for it they don’t feel they are taking a risk and most people I’ve seen in aviation, unlike a lot of other businesses, they don’t start out to make a lot of money, they just love what they do and if it happens it happens!”

:2011, Aviation entrepreneur, Friends of Aviation, Joe Clark, Living Legends of Aviation

3 Comments for this entry

Son Wolstenholme
January 29th, 2011 on 8:12 am
type-1 diabetes. He will need health insurance coverage his entire life. Why do Republicans hate him?

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Anders Bjorkqvist
May 11th, 2011 on 6:25 pm
Fin blogg Nicklas! Minns fortfarande med fasa när vi flög över Hunneberg för 30 år sedan i en Bergfalke..!

Nice Blog Nick!
Remember when you took me up 30 years ago in a an old Bergfalke!

Cheers

andersbq.com

Speedwindurfing Pro

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phil sacks
February 12th, 2012 on 6:15 pm
You look good Joe.
phil

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