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FAA Approves Sport Pilot License
"Light-Sport airplanes will be limited in size and power: maximum weight 1,320 pounds, maximum two seats, maximum airspeed 120 knots, single non-turbine engine, fixed landing gear. If it's a Light-Sport, it should be one of the easiest planes to fly."
This has the potential to dramatically increase the number of people owning and flying planes. Not only is it easier for a person to become a Sport Pilot, it is easier and cheaper for a company to sell a Light-Sport airplane. (For years, people have been building "kit" airplanes just so they will fall under the looser "homebuilt" rules. Now, there will be no need to build a plane unless you actually want to do so.) Several airplane companies have promised to produce Light-Sport planes that will cost no more than a luxury car."
How long before we see F22 Raptor mods for the garage built kit plane ? (I say F22 because the first Enterprise or X-Wing/TIE mod attempts will likely see a Darwin award winner)
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...now we'll have wave upon wave of ultralights smearing themselves ineffectively across the sides of NYC skyscrapers.
Who knows, this may cause thousands of dollars of damages to our nation's economy through skyrocketing window cleaning costs.
As for fears that small planes might be used to carry weapons of mass destruction, I can't imagine any hostile states currently having the technology to produce a nuke weighing under a ton. I have a mental image of a fanatic-piloted sport plane hopping along a runway, frantically trying to get airborne despite the huge black ovoid labelled "ACME BOMB" in bright red letters, before plummeting dramatically off the side of a cliff. "Allah Ackbar, take off you piece of s***!" *Boom*
Wile E. Coyote, eat your little heart out.
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It's Light sport propeller-powered parachute, you insensitive clod.
The training goes sometning like this:
If you push the stick forward, the houses get bigger. If you pull the stick back they get smaller. If you keep pulling the stick for too long, they get bigger really fast!
So you mean I can fly my Corvette-ish sportplane with my lone existing hand (after, ofcourse, I have read the instruction manual in braille) and I don't even have to show up for a med-exam. Dude, this rocks!
They usually look something like this.
...And in an apparent act of copycat terrorism, the Polish Terrorist Organization has hijacked the Goodyear blimp. They have been bouncing off buildings in downtown Manhatten for the past 2 hours.
- "Nobody came out that night, not one was ever seen. But Old Man Stauf is waiting there, crazy sick and mean!"
Newsflash!
The Belgian Terrorist Organization just attacked the French Eiffel Tower on a ultraglide.
One person is reported to be seriously injured.
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...the eventual build-up of static electricity caused them to helplessly cling to one of them until they could be rescued by noticably giggling members of the NY fire department.
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>Newsflash!
>The Belgian Terrorist Organization just attacked the French Eiffel Tower on a ultraglide.
> One person is reported to be seriously injured.
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In outrage at such a blatant terrorist act by the Belgians, the US response is to invade Norway. :)
I thought we were supposed to invade normandy? http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/reference/normandy/norm andy.htm
The government announced a series of additional "sport" licenses with more lenient prerequisites:
* Sport Coroner
* Sport Patent Attorney
* Sport CPA
* Sport CIA Operative
* Sport Journalist
* Sport Software Engineer
* Sport President
The man has crash landed at least 10 times in the past 5 years due to engine failures and other problems witha plane that is undermaintained.
failures = death, and if you are over populated areas it means innocent deaths and damage on the ground.
So this guy died 10 times already? That's better than a cat!
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