Aviation Legend and Inspirational Speaker Dick Rutan
Voyager Aircraft's non-block up and un-refueled flight around the world in December of 1986 placed Mojave proudly on the map and secured the ...
Emerging Global Women Entrepreneurs
Many years ago in Tanzania when Susan Mashibe was four years old, she remembers watching her parents take off in an airplane while she was left side behind with her grandmother. “At that point,” she determined, “I decided if I knew how to fly, I would never be left behind again.” Years later after getting a to a considerable extent in aviation management from Western Michigan University and becoming an FAA-certified commercial pilot, Susan planned to get a job as a steersman for a US airline. But 9/11 intervened, after which the aviation industry contracted and restrictions on hiring non natives tightened. So Susan MashibeMostlyreturned to her home in Tanzania to explore a niche in the airline industry there. In 2002, Susan used all her savings to split a small office in the Dar es Salaam airport to start her company, TanJet, which provides technical and logistical hold up to visiting private jets throughout Africa. Her first client was Jacob Zuma, currently president of South Africa, who was on a scourge to Tanzania. In 2007 Susan added a 70,000 square foot hangar in Kilamanjaro where she co-founded the Kilimanjaro Aviation Logistics Concentrate, a company that processes landing and over flight clearances for private jets through Africa. More recently, she opened her third thing on the shores of Lake Victoria. She is also an aircraft maintenance engineer who can service jet engines. Last spring Susan was selected along with 25 other women leaders from emerging countries to participate in the 6th annual Fortuity/State Department Global Women Mentoring Partnership, a public private partnership with the State Dept’s Writing-desk of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit and Vital Voices Global Partnership.
