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5 An Irrational Decision
The following week Fred was in New York and had some people he wanted me to meet after work. Later that day at a Midtown Manhattan hotel, I was introduced to Art Bass and Vince Fagan. Fred then proceeded to explain that Art and Vince were consultants from the Aerospace Advanced Planning Group. They had just completed a study to evaluate the potential market for the proposed Federal Express service!
I had no clue that another team had been working on a study, duplicating at least a part of the research we had been doing. Trying to conceal my astonishment, I calmly probed to find out more. Fred had first become acquainted with AAPG when Art was making a sales presentation to Little Rock Airmotive, the neighboring airplane ...
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