On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 11:34:36 -0800 (PST), "
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issue, which is guys like you & me. In my case the fact I live well
below the 'official' poverty line renders me invisible. Which means I
can build and fly as much as I want to, without having any effect at
all upon the Important Decisions which shape the future of American
aviation (and Australian too, when you get down to it).

-R.S.Hoover

this will be no consolation but I've just thrown in a job that
returned me somewhere between $80,000 and $100,000 per year to move
below the poverty line.
I've become my wife's carer as her psyche problems worsen.

so I will be *making* my next aircraft. the turbulent will have all
manner of bits cast and machined by me.

as a model engineer I'd like to make an accurate altimeter, an
accurate air speed indicator....

y'know this *is* fun.

Stealth Pilot