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Exquisite Air Charter is a repeat winner from the 2007 Home-Based 100 (that year in the Top Ten Wordliest category)4. And nothing's keeping the founder, Rena Davenport, from being a winner again this year, this time here in the Most Glamorous category. Her high sizzle business includes booking private jet flights for fancy clients. She also has special catering services, such as organic meals for her finnicky clients. Exquisite Air Charter was started without any investments and almost no start-up capital by Davenport, a single mother who was determined to balance her dreams of being her own boss with being a dedicated full-time mother. Her business could have easily qualified for other categories this year, too, but landed softly in Recession Busters because she's growing rapidly even though she's in an industry that's seeing a significant contraction.