With current liability laws and a lawsuit-happy society it is liability-prohibitive to develop and build a new general aviation aircraft design. Practically every general aviation commercial aircraft is based on 50-year-old designs.
I once read a speculation that if the Government was in charge of all polio research, we still would not have a vaccine but we would have the most elaborate and expensive iron lungs imaginable. The younger readers know how to Google it and we older readers still remember. > -----Original Message----- > From: Mitch > Haley > > > > It is amazing that they are still using aircraft that are 70 years old > > for commercial purposes in such a difficult and hostile environment. > ... _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
