Cup holders allowed drinking in flight and that in turn
required "draining the pilot's sump" more often in flight.
This required relief tubes, but then women started flying
and that requires the potty. The potty requires plumbing
and that means plumbers. More money "down the drain" [pun
intended] and then the government started buying toilet
seats and we all heard what THAT cost.


Maybe we could try to build a jet engine that burned paper
trash instead of petroleum products. This could save a lot
of oil and several steps in the process of flight, they
could just directly burn money.



--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

--
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But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.
some support
http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/secondamendment2.htm
See http://www.fija.org/ more about your rights and duties.


"Dan" wrote in message
news:CrYLf.27326$Ug4.19353@dukeread12...
| Jim Macklin wrote:
| I think we have stumbled on something here. The Wright
| brothers took many years to build their flying machine
and
| for the time, lots of money. But the amount was so low
that
| it isn't even reported, still we can assume that it was
more
| than the cost of a normal vacation from Ohio to the
Atlantic
| coast. They flew a few feet off the ground at less than
| running speed.
| WWI increased spending and the airplanes flew higher and
| faster.
| WWII spent a lot more money and the airplanes flew even
| higher, faster and further.
| During the Cold War airplanes got VERY expensive and
some
| airplanes cost two billion dollars each. This very
airplane
| can fly around the world, drop bombs and fly home. In
each
| case, it costs a lot of money.
| These new expensive airplanes don't even look like
| conventional airplanes, but again, without the money of
the
| government they don't fly.
| Maybe flight is just a government conspiracy to spend
money?
|
|
|
| "Dan" wrote in message
| news:gYULf.27316$Ug4.25466@dukeread12...
| | Ernest Christley wrote:
| | Richard Isakson wrote:
| | "ChuckSlusarczyk" wrote ...
| |
| | First honest thing I've read in this thread. Lift
is
| caused by
| | feathers is
| |
| | a
| |
| | known scientific fact and I can prove it .
| |
| |
| | I hate to get involved in these "what causes lift"
| threads but this is
| | nonsense. An ostrich after all, with all it's
| feathers, CAN'T FLY. I
| | already stated a couple weeks ago that flight is
magic.
| A well known
| | fact.
| | Such silliness as "feathers" and "lift demons" is
just
| an attempt to
| | avoid
| | being burnt at the stake by the fearful masses.
| |
| | Rich
| |
| |
| |
| | Oh, stop it! Stop it! Stop it! This is all pure
| nonsense and has
| | nothing to do with MANNED flight. We all know that
it
| is MONEY that
| | keeps airplanes in the air. I have a whole stack if
| bills as proof.
| |
| |
| | I can prove you are wrong. It's PAID bills that get
men
| off the
| | ground. See how long you will fly if you decide to
stop
| paying the bills.
| |
| | Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired
|
|
|
| What really disturbs me is that almost makes sense. You
missed the
| part about cup holders. The prices really got out of hand
when cup
| holders were invented. Are you sure your not one of
"them?"
|
| Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired