I was surprised to read the GA fleet’s avg age is 33 years.(FAA data) In 2003 I restored a dormant Piper Lance II for the owner, and paid about the same as you for paint. Probably another $16k updating the panel for light IFR, and helped replace the interior during annual that year. It was essentially a new plane once…

I own a 1977 Piper Arrow III. It has four seats, 200hp, retractable landing gear, a constant-speed (adjustable-pitch) propeller, and a useful load of about 700lbs. I purchased it ten years ago for $60K and immediately got a $8K paint job. The equivalent aircraft new would probably be about $400K but would have a nicer…

Owning a plane is wildly expensive and not really comparable to owning a car, and though in some ways it is like a house, your house doesn’t cost hundreds or thousands of dollars an hour to operate (yes, an hour). On top of the mentioned fuel and overhaul cost, there are a myriad of items that require an annual…

Twenty years ago private pilots called their day trips to random airstrips the “$100 Hamburger” since that’s what it cost to fly, land, have lunch, then go home. I imagine it’s probably up to $300 by now.

You’re not wrong. My take is that it wasn’t a lack of creativity, it was the late 90's and early 2000's gravy train that did them in. NASCAR (or at least the family members) owned more than half the tracks that they raced on. When they were still packing the grandstands and companies were paying a gagillion dollars to…

Well they already have two "home games" why do they need a third

Yeah I'd like to see the all star race move around every year 

NASCAR’s 2021 car needs to be much more like an Australian Supercar than what they’re running now. Granted, the Supercars and DTM have been drifting further away from “stock” for many, many years now themselves but they’re still more recognizable than what NASCAR bills as a “stock car”.

Charlotte should be keep both dates but lose the ASR.

100% agree.  Instead, I plan to follow the Silk Way Rally

Screw that. I want nothing to do with that country. That race Is dead to me until It gets moved again. 

Fuck Saudi Arabia, and Fuck the Dakar Rally for holding their rally there.

Sure support slavery, terrorism and a despotic murderer. By all means, go ahead and promote this Dakar.

CP, that 5.9 is about 3/4 dead at that mileage

I’m ready to throw car parts at someone’s head soon if that shit doesn’t go away.  Do they not realize they’re more likely to annoy people than get them  to do whatever it is they think they want them to do???????  

This comment needs more attention.

I think for political correctness reasons you should refer to the US as the most full-figured or curviest country in the world.

I say the same thing about 4/20 and smoking

Why does the fattest country in the world need “National Fast Food Day”? Isn’t that like every day?

What personal information are you giving up. **eye roll**