OK,,Want to know what I think about the L.S.A. part in U.S., look and think
about this,,250 pounds of aluminum cost , say two dollars a foot,,drill a
hole in each end of a length of tubing and suddenly it's an airplane part
and cost 50 times the purchase price. Labor is not the total cost of the
rise in price but human greed on the part of the manufacturer..Is anybody
really worth one million dollars a month ON RETIREMENT??? Americans are
spoiled rotten and totally consumed with their own greed . If they have one
good thought about something,instead of sharing, they want to be paid the
rest of their lives for it. We deserve to be destroyed as Sodom and Gomorra
..Even Christ drew a line in the sand and dared others to cross it. We have
no line except each our own and it s drawn in different places as the limit
of our morality .And some of us have none.!!!!
"Lou" wrote in message
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Ok, just spent a week at Oshgosh like quite a few of you and, although
I noticed this before it just hasn't changed much. How many LSA's are
made in the U.S.A.? I don't mean assembled, I mean, manufactured. Is it
really impossible for Americans to design, manufacture, and sell
products at a reasonable price and still make a living? Aircraft should
be one thing my country could excel at. We have everything needed,
materials, knowledge, ability, and desire, but most every aircraft in
this category is either imported or the parts are imported and then
assembled here.
I'm not talking about a product that cost more to make than to just
buy a cheap import. Light Sport planes have gone through the roof in
just a matter of a couple of years. You can't convince me that there
isn't a plane that can be designed and manufactured for a competitve
price. It's not that I am against any other country making a buck here.
I'm just very dissapointed in Americans not even trying. What happened
here?
Just a thought.
Lou