On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 01:29:17 GMT, Jack wrote:

kenny wrote:
"drclive" wrote in message
oups.com...
We need the money and support for organizations like AOPA which is
everyday fighting for our rights as GA pilots. BA and the Concorde
bellows to an industry valued around 1.5 billons pounds; they don't
need either support or money from us.

hey i belong to both AOPA & NBAA, and am a CFI

i hope the cynical attitudes displayed are in the
minority. it would be a shame to discourage a new
generation of young engineers from pursuing the
next evolution of manned flight hardware. Or to
dissuade the "kid" schlepping odd jobs at the local
FBO to pay their way through flight training (on
the ladder towards the multi turbine 121 platforms).
Not all of us care to stop our flight training at
the PPL milestone. - and not all of us care to be
ALPA union flunkies more concerned about extorting
more pay from the flying public either....

As a sidenote, the B-52 is still around, and it's
older than Concorde. Can you say SLEP ? however i
agree, it would be like trying to fly that ancient
relic the space shuttle into the next century. time
to sink it and develop a new generation of hardware.

naysayers can rejoice with the likes of Fred Smith's
old college professor (who purportedly gave him a C
on his term paper describing his brainchild).

Who's Fred Smith and why should I care?


At Uni, Fred Smith did an overnight package service business plan, I
think he got a C. He took the project and turned into a small
business that has grown a little since them....

Fred Smith is the founder of Federal Express....