EXHIBIT 3(i).1

                           ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
                                       OF
                               Air Epicurean, Inc.

         Article I. The name of the Corporation is Air Epicurean, Inc.

         Article II. Its principal and registered office in the State of Nevada
is 774-180 Mays Boulevard, Incline Village NV 89451. The initial registered
agent for services of process at that address is N & R Group, Ltd. a Nevada
Corporation.

         Article III. The purposes for which the corporation is organized are to
engage in any activity or business not in conflict with the laws of the State of
Nevada or of the United States of America. The period of existence of the
corporation shall be perpetual.

         Article IV. The Corporation shall have authority to issue an aggregate
of One Hundred Million (100,000,000) shares of common voting equity stock of par
value one mil ($0.001) per share, and no other class or classes of stock, for a
total capitalization of $100,000. The Corporation's capital stock may be sold
from time to time for such consideration as may be fixed by the Board of
Directors, provided that no consideration so fixed shall be less than par value.

         Article V. No shareholder shall be entitled to any preemptive or
preferential rights to subscribe to any unissued stock or any other securities
which the corporation may now or hereafter be authorized to issue, nor shall any
shareholder possess cumulative voting rights at any shareholders meeting for the
purpose of electing Directors.

         Article VI. The affairs of the corporation shall be governed by a Board
of Directors of one (1) person. The Initial Director of the Corporation, whose
name and address is J. Dan Sifford, Jr., 3131 Southwest Freeway, Suite 46,
Houston, TX 77098, to serve until the next regular meeting of shareholders or
until their successors are elected.

         Article VII. The Capital Stock after the amount of the subscription
price or par value shall not be subject to assessment to pay the debts of the
corporation, and no stock issued as paid up shall ever be assessable or
assessed.

         Article VIII. The initial By-laws of the corporation shall be adopted
by its Board of Directors. The power to alter, amend or repeal the By-laws, or
adopt new By-laws, shall be vested in the Board of Directors, except as
otherwise may be specifically provided in the By-laws.

         Article IX. The name and address of the Incorporator of the corporation
is J. Dan Sifford, Jr., 3131 Southwest Freeway, Suite 46, Houston, TX 77098

         I THE UNDERSIGNED, being the Incorporator hereinbefore named for the
purpose of forming a Corporation pursuant the General Corporation Law of the
State of Nevada, do make and file these Articles of Incorporation, hereby
declaring and certifying that the facts herein stated are true, and accordingly
have set my hand hereunto this Day, July 12, 1996.

                                               /S/ J. Dan Sifford, Jr.
                                               J. Dan Sifford, Jr.
                                               INCORPORATOR