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though I imagine fairly expensive https://apnews.com/article/denver-north-pole-flight-united-children-santa-977a175dda26c8bbb9fa83d821cbaced

Certainly a number of interesting points there. For now let’s discuss this V8 project by way of example and since it was the OP. To start with let’s just review the basic facts. As I understand it these guys have worked out a way to use a V8 aluminum marine engine on a C172. They state it...

Fun story Ron, thanks for sharing it. Perhaps I misunderstood your prior post. It seemed to me you were saying that states had outlawed homebuilts and then the CAA stepped in. But this story seems to imply homebuilding was fine until the CAA came up with overly restrictive or ambiguous regulations.

I am not quite sure what the practical implication will be since one is effectively denied after a request for more information in any case. https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/new-medical-denials-raise-concerns/

Ron, do you have a reference for this? Very interesting,

https://www.flyingmag.com/historys-unique-aircraft/boeing-417-a-fascinating-footnote-of-aviation-history/

Very true. I would say the things which really bug me about the TSA are: Industrial invasion of privacy just for theater. $11.8 BN wasted. Huge waste of time on everyone’s part. Everyone just going along with this joke.

How could it keep a determined terrorist off? Answer - they can’t. https://archive.ph/H4fGY

It is curious how these minor sorts of hysteria about things in the sky get going. https://www.dailywire.com/news/dhs-fbi-release-statement-about-drone-sightings-in-new-jersey

I would submit that the evidence in other industries is that such regulation actually inhibits growth. I am not sure what sort of examples you are requesting. The last time we discussed this, IIRC, there was no evidence specifically studying the effects of these regulations generally in...

Those sort of anecdotes do not, in my view, argue strongly against the large body of literature which shows that these types of regulation slow down innovation and increase cost. This result is sort of also intuitive, is it not? The whole purpose of such regulations is to keep people from taking...

Good points to think about and nice to hear your input. Overarchingly though, it is a well documented and general result that regulations and the accompanying bureaucracy decrease innovation and increase costs. I see no data and analysis to suggest aviation is any sort of special exception...

I think in that article they are not complaining about specific wording, but rather about the way the regulatory apparatus is simply not talking to or dealing with them at all. So it is the effective stonewalling by people, not the words on paper. I don’t find that terribly surprising. Do...

The regulatory barriers just not moving at all. I have to admire their persistence but fear it is really tilting at windmills. https://airfactsjournal.com/2024/11/the-corsair-c172-v8-experiment-update-3-readers-suggestions/

Apparently just a rock formation - https://www.opb.org/article/2024/11/25/rock-formation-not-amelia-earhart-s-plane-shown-in-sonar-image/

Haha. That just happened to be the link I found.

The Spirit of St. Louis was first tested by Lindbergh at Dutch Flats, which was an old flat area in San Diego, north of the current Lindbergh Field. In 2010 I visited the post office near there as there is a plaque marking this location on its wall.

"In short, we are what would be referred to in biology as a domesticated species. We are no longer wild Homo sapiens. Instead, psychologically, many of us have become sheep. Baaa... As sheep -- or, if you prefer domesticated Homo sapiens (Homo sapiens domesticus) or perhaps Homo sapiens...

This time by none other than Dan Gryder https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/11/23/who-is-d-b-cooper-new-evidence-may-crack-one-of-americas-greatest-mysteries/

More great things coming from private industry - https://www.flyingmag.com/news/civil-aircraft-breaks-sound-barrier-for-first-time-since-concorde/