Not really. California has one of the worst grades of gas for performance. Fill up your car with fuel from Oregon, and you’ll notice that your mileage goes up about 5-10%. It is because California requires all the additives that decrease the potential energy for each gallon of fuel.

Using batteries that cannot be built in California.

Jetpacks that fly for less than a minute aren’t regulated by the FAA because they figure you will probably just kill yourself sooner or later. If it can sustain flight and gets classed as an ultralight, then you can’t fly over any congested areas or people.

If you flew a real helicopter, you would need to stay above 500 feet unless you are coming in for landing or when taking off.

Public Use UAS is allowed ground to 400 feet and must remain within line of sight of the pilot.

Rules for recreational operators are different than for commercial and public use.

So the restrictions are 400 feet and below, line of sight of the pilot, 5 miles from an airport with a tower, 3 miles from one with instrument approach, 2 miles from remaining airports and heliports. That means they can’t fly over my house since I’m within 5 miles of a major airport.

The department would have to get a blanket Certificate of Waiver or Authorization to fly. It will depend on what is listed on their COA.

And what is your background? The company I work for is a sole source subcontractor for the 787 and also for Sikorsky.

I wouldn’t say made, they are assembled in Everett. Boeing doesn’t “make” anything, they only assemble. All components are outsourced to other companies.

Sikorsky has offloaded commercial airframe manufacturing to Czech Republic, Turkey, India, and China. Do don’t think that other companies can’t do the same thing.

I can’t comment on the airplane industry but I do work in the helicopter industry and I can say that they can outsource helicopters to other countries. MD Helicopters has their airframes built in Mexico. Sikorsky has outsourced airframes to Czech Republic, Turkey, India, and China.

Philly sucks if you have to find a gas station to fill up the rental car.

Guadalajara and Mexico City. I wonder if they do Mexico City because the Mexican Consulate is in Natomas?

Every time I’ve flown to DFW, the plane always lands on the runway opposite the terminal and spend the next 20-30 minutes taxing all the way around the airport.

Or don’t fly out of Terminal A.

The food in Terminal B is pretty good. Terminal A sucks though.

So he likes to move his stick up and down...

Wrong analysis there. Van Riessen forced Cueff onto the apron where she lost control and went wide leaning on Van Riessen all the way to the edge of the track.

Lance Dopestrong was an average cyclist before he got cancer. He was a cocky a-hole right when he turn pro. He boasted how he can win every stage of the Tour DuPont and then got his ass handed to him. He won the occasional one day race just like everyone else. Then there’s the controversy of bribing guys to let him…