Von Hirsch and her Greece-based partner, Evi Aidonopoulou, handle guest requests: filling each room with specific flowers, arranging a birthday cake or aboat to dinner on Mykonos, flying in food, finding the perfect guides, drivers, butlers--you get the idea.
In 1947, the Hughes H-4 Hercules, an eight-engine flyingboat, built by Howard Hughes, made its one and only flight of just over a mile in Los Angeles harbor.