[publiusF27]

That was an opinion on the nature of flight, not a legal opinion about what courts have said. As a flight instructor, I found my job much, much easier if the student was already into boating.

I don’t know much of anything about aviation case law, and whether they have looked to the substantial effects and aggregation principles to justify federal regulation. I’m just saying they wouldn’t have to look so far to satisfy me. The air is like a river. It’s a channel of commerce, and can be subject to federal regulation.

[Mojave]

That was an opinion on the nature of flight, not a legal opinion about what courts have said.

So any legal comparison to navigable water in the Constitution is meritless.