I've never landed a plane in the Hudson River. "It was a little strange being there with astronauts," Popovich said of his induction. He also was inducted into the Living Legends of Aviation, whose members include Frank Borman, Buzz Aldrin, Richard Branson, Elon Musk, Paul Allen, Harrison Ford, Tom Cruise and Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger.
Popovich, the founder and president of Sage-Popovich, is being inducted into the Northwest Indiana Business & Industry Hall of Fame, and it's not the only hall of fame he's been enshrined in. "Fortunately, no one's been willing to pull the trigger over an aircraft," he said. Popovich has stared down the barrel of a gun more than once. "If that didn't happen, I'd probably still be there today." "They just opened all the jail cells," he said. He spent seven days there before, by an incredible stroke of good fortune, a popular uprising overthrew the dictator "Baby Doc" Jean-Claude Duvalier. Popovich was thrown into a crammed Haitian prison with a dirt floor. The airport had demanded $1 million for storing the plane for months, terms the bank had not agreed to.
In 1986, for instance, Popovich said he was seized by Haitian troops, who shot at and bayoneted the engine of a plane he was trying to repossess for a bank in Port-au-Prince. Sage-Popovich, an aviation consulting and asset management firm headquartered in Valparaiso with a hangar at the Gary/Chicago International Airport, soared to great heights of success in a sometimes dangerous line of work, where defaulters often don't want to part with their plane. Nick Popovich has piloted a global aviation business that, since its founding in 1979, has repossessed more than 1,800 planes and helicopters, valued at more than $40 billion in aircraft and parts, from locations around the globe.
0 kommentar(er)
