ANN's Exciting 'Premier Edition' Program Will Help Support XPRIZE Outreach At Oshkosh and Beyond!!!
Finally! We're ready to open the doors and welcome you along as we build a whole New ANN (and a lot more) with the first of a number of products and programs that will enable and empower us toward a better future. ANN is proud to give our readers. listeners, and viewers the chance -- ahead of the massive campaign that will start shortly -- to get their hands on the Collector's/Premier Edition of "Beyond The Blue" -- the Ultimate Insider’s Guide To The Tenth Anniversary Of The XPRIZE Revolution.
Why go to all the trouble of putting this special program together? Simply put, we have a chance with this summer's 10th Anniversary Celebration of the winning of the XPRIZE to do something amazing... and in a place that created the original sparks of innovation that made the XPRIZE possible... Oshkosh! All through the XPRIZE community, it was well-known that the creativity and innovation that built the experimental aircraft movement and EAA, itself, was part of the inspiration that eventually put some of our own aviation brethren into space just a decade ago. And while XPRIZE has some really exciting plans as to how they'll celebrate their 10th Anniversary, we want to make sure that Oshkosh is THE place where it all starts... just as it did years before with guys like Burt Rutan and Mike Melville, Peter Diamandis and Gregg Maryniak and Erik Lindbergh... and, of course, EAA Founder Paul Poberezny.
Beyond the Blue, the photo/narrative by ANN's own Jim Campbell, is the ultimate insider's look at the first decade of the XPRIZE revolution. From the heady days of the XPRIZE test flights and competition flights to the formation and execution of the Zero-Gravity Corporation, XPRIZE Cup, Rocket Racing League, Google Lunar XPRIZE and other innovative events and programs, Campbell provided the cameras, notepad and a personal narrative about one of the most exciting efforts of the 21st century. The result is a visually stunning, thought provoking, inspirational book that outlines one of the most innovative decades in recent human history…
Compiled from over 16,000 high-resolution photos, thousands of pages of notes, hundreds of published stories, some iconic pictures that were seen all over the world (with a GREAT many hundreds more that haven’t yet been published – until NOW)… the result has been carefully reviewed, selected, organized, designed and brought together in an expertly designed, bright, heavily illustrated 168 page, 4-color book. Best of all, Beyond The Blue includes a stirring Foreword by XPRIZE Founder Peter Diamandis, who admits that his detailed contribution is… “the first time that I’m actually getting to tell the story of the founding of XPRIZE and the creation of the Ansari XPRIZE.”
“I am so proud of this book. It is an incredible telling of the Ansari XPRIZE story and the journey to creating this breakthrough competition,” said Dr. Diamandis. “This book will hopefully allow more people to understand the impact this competition had on the space travel industry.”
SO... here's what we have in mind. This is YOUR chance to not only get your hands on a LIMITED/Prized Collector's Edition... but help us support the educational outreach celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the winning of the XPRIZE! Your purchase gets you one of the first signed/numbered/certificated copies of the book (the first copies off the press -- and the sooner you order, the lower your book number will be), but much of these funds (after we pay the bills) will support our first outreach celebrations at AirVenture Oshkosh, and that will include an 'EGGS PRIZE' youth education program, the display and support of a full-scale model of SpaceShipOne at Wittman Field in Oshkosh, an exciting multi-media presentation that will be used throughout the celebration period, the attendance and events built around some of the XPRIZE visionaries, a Theater in The Woods celebration... and MORE. We expect the books to start delivering on or slightly before the first day of AirVenture 2014!
OH... and there are some MORE surprise EXTRAS in development for Premier Edition customers, too!
We plan to take at least 100 of the books, at random, off the first press run and circulate them among some of the pivotal history-making XPRIZE Insiders, for them to sign as well. So; in addition to an author signature, you MAY get a copy that is also signed by someone like Peter Diamandis, or Gregg Maryniak and/or any number of the extraordinary/historic participants in the first decade of the XPRIZE Revolution. It's an exciting and fun way to spice up this offering -- and no kidding, it will be totally random. Oh yeah... as you may have guessed, there are even more surprises in the works (stay tuned!).
This extraordinary 'Premier Edition' will be offered as a boxed set that includes one of the first books, right off the press, signed and numbered by the author, as well as a certificate of authenticity and other special benefits. And please remember that the $100 Premier Edition is being offered in order to offer XPRIZE advocates and fans the chance to get their hands on a one-time collector's edition that will, also, support some of the exciting XPRIZE programs and outreach events that will continue the immensely important work started some two decades ago when the XPRIZE was born.
Help us make this program, and all the supporting events something special... help ANN and the XPRIZE team continue their work to build a better future for all those who want to fly--in the sky or in space... and please know that this amazing effort is but the tip of the spear in a series of new and exciting programs from those of us who have worked so hard and so long to represent you as honestly and as professionally as we can -- the extraordinary folks that make up the Aero-News Network, Aero-TV, Airborne and the Kindred Spirit Press.
PRE-ORDER YOUR PREMIER EDITION NOW
AND GET 10% OFF (TIME-LIMITED OFFER!)
For those looking to be among the first to get a copy of the Premier Edition (and the lowest possible Certificate Number), advance orders are being taken online. Mail orders are being taken at Kindred Spirit Press, POB 3773, St. Augustine, FL, 32085… please be sure to include the $100 Premier Edition fee, $10 shipping/handling, a full mailing address, a phone number (in case of shipping questions), and an email address (for special newsletter updates and info).
And, yes, if you want the Standard edition of the book ($40, plus $10 s/h), sans the signatures, goodies and certificate, you can still preorder a copy RIGHT NOW at http://kindredspirit.com/products/beyond-the-blue .
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