BeechTalk - BT - Powerball $375M after tax. What's your new fleet look like?

Username Protected · **Posted:** 03 Nov 2022, 12:49

Username Protected wrote:

Any game of chance where the government is entitled to grossly more of the reward than you are to play, and you are the only one with skin in the game (cash on the table), is not a game I desire to play. It’s a legalized taxation scheme where one person benefits whilst millions of others are the financiers.

The lottery is voluntary.

Taxes aren't.

I have no problem with playing when the odds are in my favor. Under current conditions, it happens somewhere over a billion dollars. I have a ticket for the next drawing.

Also....PC-24.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 03 Nov 2022, 12:53

Could I buy BeechTalk and pay Crandall $8/mo?
Edit - Maybe that should have been in blue! :grr:

I miss him!

Username Protected · **Posted:** 03 Nov 2022, 12:56

Username Protected wrote:

Could I buy BeechTalk and pay Crandall $8/mo?
Edit - Maybe that should have been in blue! :grr:

I miss him!

Do you think she will pay the $8 or not. Wonder what those odds are. :lol:

Username Protected · **Posted:** 03 Nov 2022, 13:21

Alright I'll play...
- Ferrari 288GTO in some Rally livery.
- A big hangar in Alpine...
- An M with 10s and the new Garmin panel and Autopilot.
- A Wing Derringer of course... I mean who wouldn't?
- Maybe a 56TC for Costco runs

Username Protected · **Posted:** 03 Nov 2022, 13:24

There is a considerable gulf between “small, but non-zero” and zero.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 03 Nov 2022, 13:34

CJ4 Gen 2 and a 350i Blackhawk KingAir.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 03 Nov 2022, 13:41

Username Protected wrote:

Could I buy BeechTalk and pay Crandall $8/mo?
Edit - Maybe that should have been in blue! :grr:

I miss him!

I'll pay him $9 to stay away.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 03 Nov 2022, 14:35

Pretty soon now they will be talking real money.
I think a super connie partie plane and a PC-24

Username Protected · **Posted:** 03 Nov 2022, 14:45

Username Protected wrote:

Would build a giant hangar at home drome with a glass office on second floor to look at current plane plus the Falcon and Cessna 185 I just bought w my winnings. The hangar door would be glass so I could see all the cool planes pulling up to my new FBO I opened which will have a real espresso bar, captive maintenance and reasonable fuel prices. In the distance I would see the fleet of Kodiaks I would purchase that would be running JSX style service around CO WY NM and UT. I would also be able to see the roof of the new Piaggio factory which I would build after buying the rights to the airframe from them and started producing them in the US. Framed next to my new desk would be the WSJ article about how a power all winner is buying up small aviation businesses around the country.

I can not believe it sat here this long.

Question:
Do you know how to make a small fortune in Aviation?

Answer
Start with a large one!!

Username Protected · **Posted:** 03 Nov 2022, 14:56

I might as well join the daydreaming...

First up, the single pilot traveling machine. Maybe an M2?

Then, the toys: a Waco YMF-5D would be nice, a Cessna 195, and gotta agree with the folks who said Beech 18. Aerobatic mount would probably be an Extra 330SC (although maybe I should get a Sukhoi instead to keep all the engines round). Might as well get my helicopter rating while I'm at it and I've always had a soft spot for the Gazelle.

Then I just need a full-time A&P/IA and a giant hangar to store it all, along with a dump truck full of kitty litter to clean up after all those radials.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 03 Nov 2022, 15:31

Username Protected wrote:

Best Slogan regarding the lottery??? I think it originated from the New York State lottery many years ago…

“You can’t win if you don’t play!”

"You gotta be in it to win it."

Username Protected · **Posted:** 03 Nov 2022, 16:44

My new fleet would have to resemble this.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 03 Nov 2022, 16:51

This is a game with which I am well familiar. So here it goes…

Hawker Sea Fury - because I can’t get my hands on a Mark V Tempest and I don’t think Kermit will sell his project.

Lockheed Model 12A - because it’s the perfect 1930s traveling machine,

Pimp the hell out of my Cessna T303. Which is already pretty nice.

Tigercat - because 2 x 2,500 HP is just about right for a single seater

Cessna 441 made perfect. Love the range, speed, efficiency combo. And I would actuallly use it.

I forgot one… a Turbine Mallard.

And a Taj Mahal hangar in which to keep it all.

Then there are the planes my wife would get….

Zeke

Username Protected · **Posted:** 03 Nov 2022, 16:56

I’d consider buying Mooney. Not A Mooney… Mooney. But probably not for long.

A shiny new G36 or maybe G58 would get me everywhere I’d want to take myself. Someone with stripes on their shoulder can get me most anywhere else.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 03 Nov 2022, 17:45

Username Protected wrote:

I don't need someone to sell me dreams...

I have enough imagination to dream on my own. It's fun. I do it all the time.

And If I really want something... I go and work for it. ( what a concept)

No one is trying to "sell" you anything. Just people playing "what if". You don't want to play, fine. Go back to work.