Teenage Airline Boss
Martin Halstead is a young entrepreneur, best known for having managed to launch his own airline at the age of eighteen. Martin had started his first business (1)......, making flight simulators for use in pilot training, while he was still a fifteen-year-old schoolboy, and at seventeen he left school to (2)...... as a pilot. It was whilst on the course that Martin realised that (3) ....... of just being a pilot, he'd like to run an airline business, and so he (4) ....... up with the idea for AlphaOne Airways.
Martin (5) planned to fly between Oxford and Cambridge, and there was considerable public (6) ...... in the idea. But when a big investor (7) ...... out at the last minute, Martin was left with no (8) ...... but to think again. But he was not to be (9) .......
In November 2005, he relaunched the company, this time planning flights from the Isle of Man to Edinburgh. A first flight departed on November 7th, carrying invited guests and media in an aircraft Martin had leased from another company. (10) ......... the airline suspended operations in January 2006, AlphaOne Airways had carried some forty fare-paying passengers on the route, and Martin had (11) ........his dream. It was perhaps his naivety and youth that allowed him to ignore the problems and barriers that someone older may have seen as a brick wall (12)........ in the way of achievement.

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