"Barnyard BOb - over 50 years of successful flight"

And hasn't learned a goddamned thing. I know a lot of old opinionated
sumbitches like him-if he had his way cars would still have points
ignition and drum brakes and airplanes would still be covered with
Grade A cotton and nitrate dope. I had an uncle that thought there was
a Communist conspiracy to take lead out of everything, especially
paint, so the gummint could spy on us through the walls with "scalar
heat cameras".

Some change is good and necessary. The direct drive horizontally
opposed engine was a big advance in technology in its day for its
market class-airplanes like the J-3 Cub-that were looked on then just
as ultralights are now by the people with "real airplanes" like
Stagger Beeches. The radials are now gone and it's time for the
Lycoming to follow, in fact it was time in the 80s, but personal
aviation is mostly old guys and middle-age ones with "Daddy Had A Big
One, And I Wasn't Allowed To Touch It, So I Want One Too" mentality.
Leica and McIntosh have marketed to this mentality for decades.

I learned a lot from "the old guys" as a kid so I'm passing on one
thing that they themselves had a hell of a time teaching me. I finally
realized they were right. "There's no fool like an old fool". People
who sit around and ****mouth any attempt to do something new-whether
it's the direction they would have gone or not-just because it's new
are fools, and the older they are the more foolish. They should have
figured out by now change is going to come, ready or not.

As for Hog-Air- I think it's cool he's doing something fresh and
something I'd of never thought of. I hope it works. Personally, I
don't like H-D Motorcycles, wouldn't ride one if it was a gift, and
think the future of air power has to be something that burns Jet A,
but I hope his product proves successful and provides builders with a
reliable cheaper option, both for their own safe aviation and the
satisfaction of seeing another nail pounded in the coffin at 652
Oliver Street.