“For most of my life, aviation represented something rare: freedom earned through discipline, community built through shared responsibility, and opportunity created by people willing to work, learn, and accept risk in pursuit of something extraordinary. That aviation is disappearing. Not because people stopped loving flight. Not because innovation ran out. And not because safety suddenly demanded it. It’s disappearing because aviation is being regulated, priced, constrained, and managed into submission — and too many of the institutions charged with protecting it have chosen comfort over confrontation.” Source: Jim Campbell’s most recent ‘Barnstorming’ editorial., taking some some sharp exception too the state of aviaion and the lack of effort to do what must be done to save a critical American resource and way of life.
