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PHOTO COURTESY OF POLARIS PROGRAM
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Jared Isaacman leading a briefing with the Polaris Program team
“I have been personally very lucky that aviation has been such a huge part of my life for twenty years. It’s not just a means of transport. I’ve flown airshows for years and co- founded a defense aerospace company where we operated fighter jets to help train the military. I’ve been fortunate to leverage my aviation background to fly in orbit. I can’t even imagine my life without aviation because, again, for me, it’s so much more than just going from A to B. It’s a big part of who I am.”
While he has commanded a spacecraft and a fleet of decommissioned military aircraft (more than 100 at Draken International’s peak with him at the helm), Isaacman’s aviation journey began modestly like any other aviator.
“I’ve had a passion for aviation since I was a kid, I think like many pilots. Maybe that was Top Gun that did it,” he
PHOTO COURTESY OF POLARIS PROGRAM
Jared Isaacman about to fly the MiG-29
Jared Isaacman under the wing of a MiG-29 that he routinely flies
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PHOTO COURTESY OF JARED ISAACMAN
Jared Isaacman flying the CJ4 with one of “the best copilots in the world” (one of his two daughters)