ABSTRACT
A large part of the mistakes and bad management in the airline industry comes from the fact that it is a glamorous one in the minds of most people. Luckily most of the start-up airline plans fail to create new carriers and the nave potential entrepreneurs return to what they know best. Aviation is generally not associated with power. Prestige and sex appeal are a different matter than pure power. Powerful people may want the prestige associated with aviation and they often realize this desire is an expensive hobby. Clearly, not only the entertainment industry in terms of writers dealt with aviation. Leonardo da Vinci, the famous fifteenth century painter, designed flying machines that looked very similar to today's helicopters, gliders and contraptions looking like today's parachutes. The aerodynamic and lift properties of that contraption were definitely better than those used for the Spruce Goose, the largest airplane of that time ever built which flew only once.
