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Old 11th April 2025 | 18:01
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Wide Mouth Frog
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Perhaps your does. The wealth inequality in the US worse than the UK so maybe you are lucky enough to be in the top 10% that holds 67% of household wealth or maybe you have to be in the top 1% holding 30% of the country's wealth to make you rich in your eyes.

How many of the bottom 50% who own only 2.5% of the total household wealth own Cirrus or Pipers or Cessnas?
FFS Crab, every time I try and dig you out of a hole you jump right in to another one. What the actual F would someone in the lower 50 percentiles of income be doing owning a light aircraft ?

When you start having disposable income, first you rent, and then you might consider group ownership, and if you happen to be a Doctor or something, then you might consider buying a killing machine named after you all for yourself. That's the bracket that the HX50 is aimed at. Some of those new owners might choose to rent to others, and thus the entire industry is sustained at whatever level of expenditure they can afford.

Or you get the head of state to hire you so you can have a wild time in some of the most extraordinary machines that mere mortals cannot afford.

Some of the poorest people I have ever met are in the flying industry trying to earn a living at it whilst living in a beat up old caravan on the airfield. If you're going to turn this into an argument about how society is structured, then I think we're a little off topic.

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