How’s SpaceX stock doing today? Up 6% says the Google? Even if it had sagged to Morningstar’s number (see SpaceX is worth $63/share according to the most expert experts), there would still be a lot of newly minted rich people due to the expiration of employee lockups. It’s almost as though they won the lottery, which raises the question… Can one predict the effects of winning the lottery?
We estimate the effects of large, positive wealth shocks on marriage and fertility among Swedish lottery players. For male winners, wealth increases marriage formation and fertility and likely reduces divorce risk. For female winners, the only clear effect is a higher short-run (but not long-run) divorce risk. The gendered treatment effects are often similar to income gradients. Our findings align with models in which wives derive greater marginal utility from consumption when single than when married, whereas the opposite holds for husbands—but only if marital property is divided unequally upon divorce. We provide descriptive evidence consistent with such unequal division.
If the academics are correct, we should expect wedding bells for some of the male employees of SpaceX and that the female employees will be filing more divorce lawsuits than they otherwise would have.
(The “if marital property is divided unequally” phrase in the above, I think, refers to prenuptial agreements in which property is kept separate. Sweden’s divorce law allows for the possibility that a lottery prize could be joint property, in which case a female partner of a male winner could cash out via initiating a divorce and also the possibility that a man’s lottery prize could belong to him alone, in which case the female partner’s only way to spend some of it would be to stay married.)
Graham Platner was able to farm oysters, run for Senate, and have sex with every progressive female in Maine while receiving a disability pension from the Veterans Administration for 100% disability. What’s next for this noble fighter for river-to-the-sea liberation? How about airline pilot, a job that requires a First Class medical certificate from a Federal Aviation Administration medical examiner. Is it possible to be 100% disabled under the standards of one government agency, and receive a share of the $150+ billion that the VA pays out for disability, and 0% disabled under the standards of a sibling government agency? The answer, we learned at Oshkosh, is a resounding “Yes!”
Here’s a booth of specialists who help with the magic:
We also stopped by the Graham Platner Veterans Administration Service Center in Wisconsin (100% of parking spaces marked in blue):
What else was worth seeing among the vendors? I liked WingTent, despite the fact that it won’t work for us low-wingers:
“With standard wheels, the [16 lb.] WingTent can produce an enclosure that is approximately 220 sq ft. at the base”
On the back of a truck and sadly not for sale:
Here’s a bizarre one: Flare Bourbon. Covidcrats in all of the lockdown states deemed alcohol “essential”, but should a group of pilots get together and make booze?
My vote for best vendor ad:
For about $220, I was able to purchase a “women owned” banana (Aviator’s Club North):
I purchased a T-shirt from the NGPA:
And, of course, for fans of Christopher Nolan’s latest magnum opus, the best product of all on display at Oshkosh:
A Greek guy reviews the film that is named after the minivan:
A friend paid a ticked for me to watch Nolan's Odyssey. Despite all of my reservations about the way the movie was marketed, I really wanted to like it. But it was worse than I expected, much worse. The casting and the costumes were the least bad thing about it.
Here are some…
— Stelios Panagiotou (@Panagiotou90St) July 18, 2026
Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed won the Michigan Senate primary yesterday. As he’s been complaining regularly about the “genocide” inflicted on the noble peaceful Gazans (a genocide whose suffering has been exacerbated by rapid population growth), presumably he’ll introduce a bill for the U.S. military to wage a jihad against Israel (the North American Ummah needs to try to stop the genocide, surely) and it will be interesting to see if any other Senators respond with “we had to surrender to Iran; isn’t Israel at least as tough?”
More interesting to me is the personal journey of Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed’s defeated opponent, Haley Stevens. Wikipedia:
Stevens and Rob Gulley, a software engineer she met in high school, became engaged in June 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they waited until September 3, 2021, to wed. Guests, who were required to have a negative COVID test, included Congresswoman Debbie Dingell and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. Nessel officiated the wedding. On October 5, 2022, Stevens and Gulley announced their divorce.
The requisite pre-wedding coronapanic, in other words, lasted longer than the marriage. That’s a true 21st century American love story.
Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed gets some assistance from state-sponsored NPR. Here’s an example from WBUR:
El-Sayed “opposes Israel’s war in Gaza“. As a matter of established fact (this is a news article, not opinion), it’s not the “Gaza-Israel war”, which would imply that the Gazans had perhaps done something aggressive to provoke fighting or, at least, were playing an active role in the fighting. It’s a war that Israel started, apparently, and is carrying out all by itself while the peaceful Gazans stand around peacefully in their UNRWA-provided housing.
What does Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed want to do? His campaign site:
abolish ICE (“People don’t come here because they want to take away from America, they come here because they want to build in America”)
“Homelessness is an American crisis–and it’s a housing issue.” (but he doesn’t promise to do anything to address the “crisis” other than building more housing, which will presumably be immediately occupied by the humans streaming through the open borders (ICE is gone and, therefore, nobody can be deported))
surrender to Iran (“I oppose the illegal and unjustifiable war in Iran and demand an immediate end to the hostilities.”; but isn’t Trump already surrendering?)
“immediate arms embargo on Israel” (force the Israelis to use domestically-produced 155mm artillery against the peaceful Hezbollah, Hamas, UNRWA, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters?)
keep paying Graham Platner’s 100% disability pension: “I believe in expanding and improving the VA, not cutting it.”
abolish the filibuster
oppose mandatory Voter ID laws
eliminate limits on abortion care (“government cannot and should not interfere with the right to pursue healthcare choices”)
I support raising the minimum salary for teachers to at least $60,000/year (starting total comp in Palm Beach County, Florida is already at $81,100 and this works pretty well… for teachers who live with their parents and/or a partner who has a decent job)
Separately, let’s see, from a biology perspective, how successful Michiganders are compared to Arabs who call themselves “Palestinian”. Since 1990, the population of Michigan has grown from 9.3 million to 10.1 million (“Immigration is the sole reason the state’s population is growing” (Detroit News); non-Hispanic white population percentage has fallen from 82% in 1990 to 72% in 2024 (Census). Note that the Census Bureau has classified Arabs as “non-Hispanic white”, though that will change post-2024 and for the 2030 Census with a “MENA” category. If there were a “legacy white” category that excluded Arab immigrants and their children, Michigan’s legacy white percentage is already below 70%.
During the same time period, the population of “Palestine” has grown from 2 million to 5.5 million:
ChatGPT says that if these trends continue, including cramming Michigan full of additional migrants as the native-born escape and/or can’t afford to have kids (this is not a “replacement”, please keep in mind), “Palestine” will have a larger population than Michigan in less than 20 years.
I dragged a friend to a Phillips 66 talk at the Lycoming pavilion and we found that Phillips 66 had dragged out a team of four experts, including the company’s top “scientist” in this domain, to answer questions from piston peasants.
What did we learn? A preference for straight weight 100W is purely superstitious and, even in a reliably warm climate such as Florida’s, it is smarter to use Phillips XC 20W-50 (bizarrely, the “50” in the multiweight and the “100” refer to the same “SAE 50” spec for viscosity at higher temperatures).
If you have a Lycoming engine, you should definitely use the “Victory” version of Phillips, which is preblended with a Lycoming-recommended anti-wear additive. For Continental owners, the representatives who were present leaned toward either the Victory version or XC plus CamGuard if the plane isn’t flown frequently.
Since every group needs at least one obnoxious person, I asked “You have a huge team of PhD scientists. All that CamGuard has is a snake. Why can’t you put something in the oil that will prevent corrosion for a plane that doesn’t fly regularly?” Unlike America’s Greatest Scientist, the chief scientist at Phillips 66’s oil division did not invoke the 5th Amendment. He answered that corrosion is an almost undefeatable enemy. There is always some water in the oil, even if a plane is based in the Arizona desert and even if the owner puts a Drybot in the filler tube (sadly, suitable only for T hangar royalty; those of us in shared hangars can’t expect the line guys to keep unplugging it and plugging it back in when the aircraft is moved). There is thus no substitute for flying regularly (“at least monthly”, but of course weekly is better).
What about the FAA-industry dream of unleaded gasoline in 1950s engines? So far, there isn’t a great one-fuel-fits-all solution. Patrick Ealy, a master’s student at University of North Dakota, gave a talk about capturing the lead out of the exhaust stream (about 40 minutes in; the first part of the talk is more about how aviation 100LL is falsely accused of being a significant contributor to America’s falling average IQ; he points out that even “unleaded” car gasoline has some naturally occurring lead in it and there are a lot more ground vehicles out there burning dinosaur blood than there are piston aircraft).
Related:
“Unleaded fuel takes center stage at AirVenture” (AOPA): “the FAA plans to release new versions of the transition plan after each phase. … The first phase includes authorizing fuels and doing comparison testing. … The third and fourth phases focus on the wide-scale transition—first in the Lower 48, with a goal of completing the work by 2030, followed by Alaska two years later.” (for the Cirrus SR20 with IO-360-ES engine… no unleaded fuel is approved by Cirrus, though GAMI G100UL is approved for this engine/airframe by the FAA)
The Florida primary election is in a couple of weeks so right around now is when most Floridians will start thinking about their choices. Here’s a proposal by the leading Democrat, David Jolly (until yesterday, a Republican!), to set up, without legislative approval, a massive state-run insurance company for hurricane and wind damage:
Florida’s homeowners insurance market has collapsed, and families are paying the price. On day one, I’ll introduce a state catastrophic fund to remove hurricane and wind coverage from the private market, protect homeowners, and cut insurance costs by 60 to 70%. Florida can lead… pic.twitter.com/I2s8q0Tgq3
Unless insurance companies are making 60-70% profits right now, the only way that the state-run enterprise that Mx. Jolly proposes to start can cut costs by 60-70% is by transferring those costs from Florida homeowners to Florida renters (i.e., it will lose money over the years, but get topped up periodically by infusions of tax dollars that are collected from a combination of homeowners (who get them back via this subsidized insurance) and renters (who don’t get any money back)).
This makes Jolly the inverse of Ayatollah Mamdani, whose rent freeze steals from property owners (landlords) and gives it to renters in the form of rent that gets lower every year relative to the market and lower also in real dollars because “frozen” means not adjusted even for CPI inflation. I suppose that there are also some similarities with the Mamdani Caliphate, e.g., (1) voters will easily accept the idea that a state-run enterprise, e.g., Mamdani’s city grocery stores, can have lower costs than a private enterprise, and (2) voters are eager to vote for a politician who promises to transfer wealth from some other group into their own pockets.
Maybe insurance companies actually do make 60-70% profits in Florida? Here’s our Florida-centric homeowner’s insurance company’s KBRA risk rating report. It looks like they broke even in 2022 (Hurricane Ian) and made a 10% profit in 2025 (no hurricanes made landfall anywhere in the U.S.).
(The state-run enterprise, especially if private insurance is outlawed as the tweet seems to suggest, could perhaps also steal from homeowners in low-risk areas, e.g., central Florida, and give to homeowners in high-risk coastal areas. That could be accomplished by smoothing out what should be massive rate differences between these types of neighborhoods. One more possibility is stealing from people who live in new houses by overcharging them and using that surplus to undercharge people in old hurricane-vulnerable houses.)
Finally, as a minor fact-check point in a field (politics) where nobody cares about facts, the Florida homeowners insurance market has not actually collapsed. Rates are trending down, especially after inflation adjustment, after some legislative changes during the DeSantis administration that cut back on litigation between homeowners and insurers.
They reminded us that the B-52, which first flew in 1952, was considered a temporary aircraft that would hold us until we had a full fleet of supersonic bombers. The requirements that turned into the B-1 (“B-ONE” or “Bone”) were first set forth in 1955. The B-1 evolved so slowly, changing from a very fast high-altitude machine to a barely-supersonic low-altitude machine, that Jimmy Carter, running for office in 1976, was able to promise to strangle it in its crib. During the Carter administration, the USAF managed to continue some testing of the prototype B-1s against Russian radar systems that Israel had captured in the 1973 Yom Kippur war. (Oshkosh is pretty much the opposite of New York City; speakers referred to “our friends in Israel” when mentioning various forms of military cooperation, e.g., Israel providing the U.S. with MiG fighters to seed a secret training and testing squadron in Nevada. Nobody enthuses about river-to-the-sea liberation, Queers for Palestine, or anything else that is sacred in the Mamdani Caliphate.) The B-1s got through much better than the B-52s.
The machine that first flew in 1974 (more than 50 years ago) is still in use today, e.g., as part of our gradual surrender to the Islamic Republic of Iran (maybe Jimmy Carter was right; he surrendered to Iran in 1979 and if our foreign policy is to surrender to anyone tougher than Grenada then why do we need the B-1 or, indeed, an air force?).
The WSO (“Wizzo”) talked about bombing Iraq in 1973. Bombs and missiles are loaded into a rotating carousel and if conditions change, e.g., someone thinks there is a chance to drop a particular bomb on Saddam’s head, it is necessary to jettison other items in order to get to the desired munition. Here’s how this is loaded up:
A couple of B-1s made low passes, but none stopped to visit this year (2018 was the last time?).
It was common in airshows and talks at Oshkosh for those who’ve served in our military to be praised. Of course, a percentage of these folks exhibited remarkable bravery and took significant risks. Guess who didn’t receive any praise, though? The taxpayers who made it possible for the machines on display to be designed, built, and operated! Eighty percent of federal income tax receipts come from roughly 20 million tax returns (Tax Foundation). Even assuming that over half of these are joint returns, that’s just 10 percent of the U.S. population that is dumb enough to work and pay significant tax. Would it be so difficult to say “If you paid tax on more than $150,000 in income last year, thank you for your service and for enabling us to have F-35s, F-22s, B-1s, aircraft carriers, and all of the other amazing stuff that we’ve been using as part of our surrender to the Islamic Republic of Iran”? Speaking of the F-22, here’s one parked at the FBO:
Circling back, so to speak, to the B-1… what is a likely role for the aircraft in a world of ever-more-advanced drones?
How much do attendees at Oshkosh love bombers? Have a look at the simulated bombs that are an essential part of every airshow at EAA AirVenture:
Somewhat related,
“The destruction of Germany’s great war industries was accomplished almost entirely from the air. No one can stand among their ruins without a feeling of awe for the devastating power of such attacks. The courage and skill of our pilots and their crews in these operations is legendary. They deserve the highest tribute of our people.”
— The Honorable Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War
Found on the cover of a book about the B-24 at the Aeromart within EAA AirVenture:
(We seem to have chosen the opposite approach with the Islamic Republic of Iran, i.e., allow them to continue as an industrial power and ask them nicely not to use their industry to make weapons.)
Boeing now takes credit for the B-1B, which was entirely developed and built by North American Rockwell. Boeing lost the design competition circa 1970 and acquired Rockwell in 1996, 22 years after the B-1’s first flight. What else does Boeing take credit for? At the Boeing pavilion’s gift shop, the Black Americans who won World War II:
ChatGPT, regarding the Tuskegee Airmen:
the display in your photograph is best understood as modern corporate and cultural messaging
they did not fly Boeing aircraft operationally (the Stearman was used for primary training, though)
No Tuskegee Airman officially qualified as an ace during World War II (vs. 1,279 non-Tuskegee pilots)
The group encountered enemy aircraft on only 35 of its 179 Fifteenth Air Force bomber-escort missions, partly because it entered that campaign relatively late, as German fighter opposition was declining.
Elsewhere on the field, we are informed that the “fearless” pilots who fly the B-29, an actual Boeing plane, were not the men who plowed through 16 hours of thunderstorms round-trip to Japan, but rather “fearless women” who operated the B-29 over the Continental U.S.
ChatGPT:
Many male test pilots, instructors and crews were already flying the B-29. [Enola Gay pilot Paul] Tibbets himself trained the women, and a male instructor or aircraft commander was involved in their qualification. The aircraft could not have been developed, tested and fielded otherwise.
The reluctance concerned a troublesome new aircraft, not a universal refusal by men to undertake danger.
The women were selected partly because Tibbets expected the gender comparison to embarrass reluctant male crews. The stunt depended upon the period’s assumption that a man ought to be ashamed if a woman undertook a flying risk he avoided.
Europe is home to about 40 million non-European migrants and perhaps 25 million children of non-European migrants. The total is very close to the population of France and, due to the higher migrant fertility rate, will soon exceed France’s population of about 69 million.
Roughly 60,000 migrants entered Ceuta within the past week. Instead of giving each one a proper asylum hearing, the Spanish mostly pushed them out by denying them food and water (they left “voluntarily” rather than die of dehydration and hunger). This is now praised by pro-migrant European politicians, such as Ursula von der Leyen, who uses the hateful term “illegal migrants” (“no human is illegal” is now out the window?).
We can infer that Europe wants 65-70 million non-European migrants because the ones currently residing in Europe aren’t being sent home. Given that Europe considers these 65-70 million to be beneficial somehow (cultural, economic, and religious enrichment), why wouldn’t an additional 60,000 have also been considered beneficial? And if the 60,000 people who came to Ceuta recently aren’t beneficial, why wouldn’t Europe expel the 65-70 million current resident migrants as non-beneficial? Can this apparent inconsistency be turned into something vaguely logical?
🇪🇺🇪🇸🇲🇦 Ursula von der Leyen praised the Spanish and Moroccan governments for their actions during the migrant invasion of Ceuta
“Both Spanish and Moroccan authorities handled the situation effectively and successfully, preventing illegal migrants from reaching mainland Spain and… pic.twitter.com/6vi2OGpsDg
(Note that if we were to add the Islamic Republic of Britain to the mix, that would be at least another 15 million and the non-European migrant+children population would be comparable to Germany’s population.)
🇪🇸 In Ceuta, a crowd of illegal Moroccan migrants is already establishing its own rules in the city
The crowd shouts “Allahu Akbar” at National Guard officers and drags a wounded migrant through the streets in protest against being returned home. pic.twitter.com/Q27cvVFLTW
It’s possible that “family separation” is bad when Donald Trump does it, but good when Spain does it? Those who claim to be under 18 may get whisked away to mainland Spain, while their parents are (illegally?) pushed back across the border:
🇪🇸 Spain will not deport any illegal minor migrant from Ceuta
The Ministry of Youth and Childhood announces that it will transfer, “as quickly as possible,” the illegal minors who entered Ceuta to autonomous communities that have “capacity below their normal intake levels.” pic.twitter.com/tNOzzn9zri
Here’s a Spanish Member of European Parliament saying that refusing to accept asylum applications is an example of “dignity and respect” and “defend[ing] human rights”. (Also that Israel is the Great Satan (“genocides”) and the U.S. is the Little Satan.)
Spain treated every single person with dignity and respect on this tragic situation. We defend human rights. We are not US. Of course we are not genocides as Netanyahu. We are spanish and we are proud of who we are. https://t.co/I7gjFGuV5I
Last month, my government issued a decree that makes up to half a million undocumented migrants living in Spain eligible for temporary residence permits, with certain conditions, which they will be able to renew after a year.
We have done this for two reasons. The first and most important is a moral one. Spain was once a nation of emigrants. … It is our duty to become the welcoming and tolerant society that our own relatives would have hoped to find on the other side of our borders.
This seems odd. Suppose that the dermatologist neighbor from Sheboygan invites you over for dinner on Saturday night. Do you then have an obligation to reciprocate by inviting someone from Sudan over on Sunday night? Maybe Spain could have a moral obligation to some of the countries that welcomed Spaniards in the past, but did any Spaniards emigrate to Sudan? Also, why make any economic arguments if something is a moral obligation? If one is obligated to do something does it matter whether doing it makes you better or worse off?
The West needs people. Currently, few of its countries have a rising population growth rate. Unless they embrace migration, they will experience a sharp demographic decline that will prevent them from keeping their economies and public services afloat. Their gross domestic products will stagnate. … The only option to avoid decline is to integrate migrants in the most orderly and effective way possible.
Neither A.I. nor robots will be able to prevent this outcome, at least not in the short or medium term.
How did someone with no technical education come to be more of an expert on the likely trajectory of AI and robotics than all of the AI and robot nerds in California and China?
MAGA-style leaders may say that our country can’t handle taking in so many migrants—that this is a suicidal move, the desperate act of a collapsing country. But don’t let them fool you. Spain is booming. For three years running, we have had the fastest-growing economy among Europe’s largest countries. We have created nearly one in every three new jobs across the European Union, and our unemployment rate has fallen below 10 percent for the first time in nearly two decades.
Here’s a Stinson that was disabled by an engine failure over the Red Lake Nation, a dream environment for a progressive (“the only fully “closed reservation” in the United States of America. In a closed reservation, all land is held in common by the tribe and there is no private property.”). The plane belonged for about seven months to Elizabeth Warren before AOPA and the FAA finally persuaded the tribe to return it to Darrin Smedsmo, below:
Smedsmo says he called AOPA “within minutes,” and connected with Deputy General Counsel Jared Allen, who started working immediately to help Smedsmo navigate the situation. … Allen met with Smedsmo and his attorneys at least once a week for months, and shared updates with the FAA. Meanwhile, in December, AOPA sent a letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy urging them to intervene.
If you want to preserve access to airports and, apparently, emergency landing areas, this would be a great time to sign up for lifetime AOPA membership!
Sitting on a beach on Saturday in Ceuta, Spain, a Senegalese man called Djibril Mboup … despite his hunger, Mr. Mboup, 30, said he was not going to return across the border to Morocco.
Mr. Mboup was among roughly 400 men, most of them from sub-Saharan Africa, who were gathered on this beach on Saturday. Many of them lay on ragged sheets of cardboard, their feet blistered from crossing the border and roaming Ceuta’s streets.
The fate of some of the holdouts “is not the same as that of the Moroccans,” Mr. Mohamed, 26, said. Unlike Moroccans who had joined the exodus to Ceuta on a last-minute whim, some of the sub-Saharan migrants are from war-torn regions and had journeyed for months to get to Europe. “They genuinely have the right to request international protection,” Mr. Mohamed said.
For those on the beach, the best possible outcome as they navigated the complexities of the European Union’s asylum system was to be transferred to the city’s official migrant reception center.
Mr. Mboup grew up in Dakar, the capital of Senegal, earning a diploma in logistics, he said. After struggling to find work in his early 20s, he decided to leave the country in 2018 and made his way to Morocco by navigating the deadly smuggling routes through the Sahara. He settled in Casablanca, a coastal city, where he scraped by working illegally as a taxi driver at the airport.
What makes this enricher more entitled to live in Europe than the 19+ million Senegalese who stayed in Senegal? It can’t be superior knowledge of geography:
Hoping to avoid the police’s attention, Mr. Mboup joined a group of Moroccans swimming toward Ceuta, he said. He reached the Spanish shore after roughly 30 minutes, he said, though he did not feel that he was in Spain until he saw the cars — the “Spanish cars.”
His happiness quickly gave way to disappointment, he said.
“I kept looking for signs toward Madrid and Barcelona,” he said, only to realize that he was still “on an island” and that mainland Europe was far away.
I can understand a policy under which everyone from Senegal is entitled to move to Europe. A policy under which nobody from Senegal is entitled to move to Europe would also make sense. But I can’t figure out why the Europeans run a system in which a person from Senegal is entitled to move to Europe, or at least spend 10 years there waiting for an asylum case to be heard by a court or for an amnesty to be declared by a politician, conditioned on first swimming to Ceuta or arriving on a beach in Lampedusa.
(Same question about the U.S. We are home to about 25 percent of the world’s Mexicans and 10 percent of the world’s Haitians. Why aren’t the other 75 percent of Mexicans and 90 percent of Haitians entitled to move to the U.S.? What did they do wrong?)
Fresh out of a 7-year restoration in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, this sub-killing PBY Catalina is my pick for the most beautiful warbird of EAA AirVenture 2026:
(Also a very welcome sight in 1945 for sailors from the USS Indianapolis who were abandoned to exposure in the Pacific Ocean.)
The 35,000+ lb. plane belongs to the American Heritage Museum in Maskachusetts (their press release), but will live for a year at the EAA Museum in Oshkosh. Some details on the plane’s history:
Credit to the folks in New Smyrna Beach, Florida who handled the 7-year restoration:
In other seaplane news, as soon as we got to the EAA Seaplane Base, a 30,000+ lb. Grumman Albatross flew over our heads and splashed down. A bit later, a Grumman Mallard took off and then did a fly-by:
We encountered the plane on wheels a few hours later, back at KOSH, and the owner invited our boys to climb up into the cockpit and then down through a tunnel into the bow:
Any other fun warbirds? A Boeing B-52 in Boeing Plaza next to the Boeing pavilion:
A couple of B-1s flew by. Some additional aggression, but apparently not enough to stave off surrender to the Islamic Republic of Iran:
The A-26 Invader and Al Franken:
EAA AirVenture also has some hardware related to potential civil war. Suppose, for example, that Ayatollah Mamdani’s Red Guards come to your house to arrest you for being part of the bourgeoisie. You might be able to flee down I-95 in the $465,000 BEC Defense Renegade APC, built on a Ford F-600 4×4 chassis:
It’s perfect for “family protection”:
If you prefer speed to armor, Piper is ready with a Corvette:
(Parked in front of the “Fury” makes sense since anyone in South Florida would be furious that this isn’t at least a Z06 version. 495 horsepower is insufficient for the trip to Publix.)
Just don’t try to flee the Mamdani Caliphate in a Joby. As in previous years, they showed up with something that does everything except fly:
