You really do have a very large chip on your shoulder
No, you'd be quite wrong about that.
C'mon Crab, you're better than this. You really should have a long conversation with yourself about why this project so upsets you. Nothing that you say about the project is wrong, but the nature of your attacks reveal more about you than they do about Dr. Hill. Do you feel like wealthy amateurs somehow undermine your professional standing ? I don't think so. You stand on your own mountain, and nothing that wealthy amateurs do can alter that.
You and Hughes are wrong about my reasons for decrying many wealthy amateurs - nothing to do with envy and everything to do with safety.
How many wealthy amateurs have created smoking holes and taken innocent people with them? And that is in fully certified aircraft not experimental ones.
Much like letting inexperienced but wealthy drivers into very high performance sports cars - ends in tears far more often than it should.
High performance aircraft (which is what Hill is promising) take amateurs beyond their skill level far quicker and with far less room for recovery than more sedate models.
The project only upsets me because of the wild claims about planned performance with absolutely no evidence to back them up - a classic sales technique - keen wealthy amateurs drink this sort of stuff like coolaid and throw their money (their prerogative of course) at Hill. If just one of those guys or girls ends up dead because of the short-cuts Hill is taking (using the experimental category) then it will be too much.
My professional career hinged around flight safety and training and I will continue to rail against things I feel compromise those aspects of aviation.