Originally Posted by
joshperry
It doesn't matter if you're flying a 50 year old 172 or a 6 month old R44 with fuel-injection and AC, these machines are using archaic tech invented over half a century ago, and it seems like the manufacturers and regulators have settled into enjoying it that way because of the massive amounts of cash it produces from the natural protectionism it creates for the incumbents, just like old space enjoyed.
In my opinion, more of the money flowing through aviation should be going towards improving it rather than going into the pockets of middle men profiting from regulatory capture and artificial scarcity.
The one thing you’re missing is it takes a viable market for that money to be spent. Where there is a market, aircraft OEMs on both the airplane and helicopter side will spend the big bucks on new technologies and so on. Plenty of examples. You just happen to be in a market segment that is not viable to warrant such an investment on the scale you envision.