Jared Isaacman

But they're not tactically relevant.

They're not a credible threat.

So you're not going to train the DoD against it.

So we had to fly around the world to different countries that had fleets of aircraft that still had life left on them.

that were relevant, that were threatening, so they had a radar, you could put a training sidewinder on them, and that you had enough quantity of that you were a useful training aid.

One or two jets isn't going to make a difference, right?

And that's hard.

That's the whole secret sauce of the business was finding aircraft.

you know, that were safe, credible, and sustainable.

Because generally speaking, when a country is done with their jets, they've squeezed everything out of them because they know whatever comes next is going to cost like 10 times more, like an F-35 or something.

So we went to New Zealand.

We bought the entire New Zealand Combat Air Force.

They made a political decision to not have any offensive capability.

So we bought their A4 Skyhawks, which were same jets used in Top Gun, but they were upgraded with F-16 radars.

We bought Mirage jets from France, from Spain, from Jordan.

We bought L-159 Alkas from the Czech Republic.

We bought MiG-21s from Poland.

Um, it was, it was awesome.

Like it gave me a whole nother side.

Cause I, by that point I already had, you know, uh, 11, 12 years of business experience.