[Timocrat]

Actually Raburn has a good idea...trying to produce a six-passenger corporate/personal jet for around $1 million a copy

Wait till they add in the Tort liability tax ( AKA the Trial lawyers retirement fund) The price will probably double.

[Moose4]

Well, the trial lawyers nearly killed general aviation in this country in the '70s (along with the Arab oil crises). Growing up, I always wanted to become a pilot...not a commercial pilot, just a private pilot with his own airplane, going where I wanted when I wanted. Now I'm pushing 38, and lessons are so incredibly expensive, and airplanes even more so, that it'll probably never happen.

$250,000+ for a new Cessna 182 Skylane? 20- and 30-year-old four-seat airplanes still costing $100,000? That's insanity. And it's largely thanks to the trial lawyers.

}:-)4