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You must not know much about the history of powered air flight. Once all
airplanes were built at home, in shops, and barns. Have you ever heard of Orville or Wilber Wright? All of their gliders and planes were built at home. By the way had these homebuilt planes not been successful, there would have never been a market for manufactured airplanes. Not everyone has the time or skill to build their own plane, however many do, and can build airplanes of design and performance that exceed the manufactured aircraft. If you have ever seen an air race, almost all of these high performance planes are handbuilt. If you would take time to check out the data at the FAA, you would find homebuilts have no greater occurance of accident than manufactured planes. Most small plane accidents are operator induced, flying a plane beyond it's design limits or simply forgetting to put fuel in the plane. These accidents would occur whether it were homebuilt or manufactures. You can't build a machine at home or in a plant that can overcome a person who forget to put fuel in the plane, or flys when they shouldn't, such a bad or marginal weather. Check out your facts, and you might see beyond the fog bank to the truth. "Mastic" wrote in message news:1124031529.e28ad3f838e16d8462f60f23d4102196@t eranews... Carl wrote: I just read in the newspaper that John Walton, the billionaire son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, was killed in a homebuilt airplane? That got me thinking to look for a NG that might be dedicated to this activity, and I found this one. This is all new to me, quite honestly, and disturbing. People are building airplanes at home and then flying them? This is endangering people on the ground and in the air flying in real airplanes. I guess the good thing from Mr. Walton's death is that the public at large knows about this practice, and maybe can do something about it to make our skyways a safer place. Troll Alert! |
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Mastic wrote:
Carl wrote: I just read in the newspaper that John Walton, the billionaire son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, was killed in a homebuilt airplane? That got me thinking to look for a NG that might be dedicated to this activity, and I found this one. This is all new to me, quite honestly, and disturbing. People are building airplanes at home and then flying them? This is endangering people on the ground and in the air flying in real airplanes. I guess the good thing from Mr. Walton's death is that the public at large knows about this practice, and maybe can do something about it to make our skyways a safer place. Troll Alert! This one is so obvious that no alert was needed... Matt |
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On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 00:53:06 +1000, Mastic
wrote: Troll Alert! Yup, this thing shows up word-for-word (except for the person) every few months. Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member) (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair) www.rogerhalstead.com |
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