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for being so passive, he is already influencing

Funny how one still gets rewarded for hard work, brilliance, and filling a need vs being a taker or living off the system. A leader, yes. He is not a religious leader as you suggest, IMO, however

Its a great thing Tesla is moving to LFE batteries that use iron lithium and no Cobalt, heh?

Maybe, Elon now owns 4 times more stock than Jack Dorsey in Twitter. Jack has now been deballed muted. Getting the rest of the gubbermint out of it might be a bit harder. Elon's stated disdain for the erosion of free speech was why he purchased it. He has been pretty successful in what he has set out to accomplish so far in spite of headwinds from all corners. Once I capitulated and quit betting against Elon, life has been personally much much better. Yes Elizabeth, I pay my fair share. Thankfully, there are those that still do bet against him leaving a huge window of opportunity for those less jealous and biased of his successes. I am convinced he didnt do this for the look at me, as he doesnt need to do that, he cant escape the press anyway just as Buffet, Rockefeller etc couldnt in their day.

Elon just bought 9.2% of twitter today, because their algorithm for disinformation checking was preventing free speech. Things will be way different on twitter going forward. Meanwhile, the market has been opened now for 1 hour, and he has made 600 million on this investment. He now has more than enough disposable cash to buy Mooney. All he needs is a compelling reason such a move would benefit mankind, his main decision driver.

ambiguity is the bedrock of ongoing legal profitability.

and 'breakers' instead of pilots

Today, Reece soloed in his 2009 Acclaim type S. This is the first time I have worked with a student pilot in my years of instructing, Reece is exceptional in his abilities and will make a great next gen Mooney pilot and owner. Well done Reece! If your personal standards are high enough, you can train in a Mooney

As cold as its been in the great northland, it is probably normal. If your operating the fire breathing beast LOP, it will be exacerbated some. If your touring in the FL's, heat will also be impeded. Sure fire fix is a trip down to Tampa and Ill check it out Mike

If Tesla bought Mooney, they wont be building M20's. No worry here Robert. They wont be buying it to continue down the same path. Unless you know a good IA that can work on an Electric VTOL, it might be well served to let Tesla service work on your Tesla plane.

1300 for a X performance, will be lower when I can get it from Tesla where my driving habits wont be "group thinked" but individually evaluated. I believe Tesla's hold 3 of the top 4 safest car ratings from NHTSA, but may be mistaken.

Congrats!

OASIS and Weep no more are both founding sponsors of the Mooney Summit, and continually give back to the Mooney Community. Eric is. also a Mooney Pros, Inc. Instructor. You wont go wrong up there. 2 words...fair and honest

It is a nearly impossible task to have a non conflicting calendar date that is acceptable to our main sponsors, the venue availability, NBAA events, etc. Our other available venue date was conflicting with another PPP in Denver, but as it was, very few of our attendees will have a conflict as few are from that area and there are 4 more PPP's scheduled this year. Most of the doz or 2 pilots in this area that attend the MAPA PPP went to the one in Lakeland just a few weeks ago, and I am sure they will have another in Lakeland next Jan, shortly after the Summit. We knew it was a conflict, but it was the lesser of a lot of conflicts and something we had to nail down or put the Summit off another year. I have already spoken with Robert McGuire about it and he agreed, its tough. On a good note, those insisting to do both will only have to give up airport day on Sunday if they really want to come to the Summit from Oshkosh

We talked about this last night. Depends on the skills of the avionics shop, but a sheet metal shop can easily do this.

Great job @patrickf and a big attaboy for all the input from @Deb I have given your app link to a lot of the Mooney Pros, Inc clients and everyone is very appreciative. Ping me if you ever develop and Acclaim and Ultra version! Mike

JD Straubel formed a company to recycle the batteries which F, GM, TSLA, Panasonic, LG and a host others have made a deal with to obtain the recycled materials for their batteries. Its far cheaper and cleaner than mining. JD is one of those guys who can get things done instead of pounding his chest about how great he is. And ya, when Redwood materials goes public, im in. https://www.redwoodmaterials.com/services

cant find where I did claim that. What I claimed is I can kick the snot out of a lambo with my suv in a 1/4 mile, and unfortunately, mine is old enough I cant make it make unicorn fart noises like the new ones can

Ray, I personally think their future is shorter than a lot of us old racers would even like. From a car manufacture perspective, every R&D dollar from the "big" 3 or the rest of the entrants for that matter is being spent on developing an EV strategy that might be able to be competitive with the company our current administration cannot seem to name. There is a reason for this, as they know which direction Mr. Market is pushing them. Design obsolescence has been around for a while, and why we dont see the roads filled with 1993 caddies and such, but I sure get your point about the HVAC replacement. The green way would be NO AC. (or do I mean AOC?) Replacing a boiler made in 1920 isnt exactly energy efficient from well thru installed life, but it is being done regularly. saving a few bucks on per mile cost is good, denying the congress more $ to steal from the highway fund even better, but stomping a lambo in a 1/4 mile in your SUV, priceless https://robbreport.com/motors/cars/tesla-model-x-plaid-lamborghini-huracan-evo-drag-race-1234667817/ Mike LEED AP

A simple NEMA 14-50 plug is all I added to my panel located in my garage. $60 USD worth of material at Home Depot. Hardly worth filling out a tax form to get $5 worth of credit. That said, if it is troubling that your missing out, simply install it now, take the "subsidy" for not if, but when you do get your electric car

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Good for you! Aviation needs the younger generation to step up to survive. Us old farts cant pull on the rope forever. Consider coming to the Mooney Summit in Sept, where you can network with us old guys, and possibly pick up part of that rope.

here is my usage last month 2019 p100D model X I did drive 600 mi RT to Fort lauderdale (red supercharger bar, but that is free to me) cused Banyon's free tesla charger. Other grey bars are when I take dog to dog park, also free. Tesla owners are a lot like Mooney owners. They love them, because, well, they are awesome just like Mooneys

Bingo. The buildings are leased, most of the other liquid assets have been sold. Another soft asset is there are a few talented people still their working to keep us in parts, and to keep the TC and PC alive. How are they getting paid? It isnt from posting copies of the service and parts manual here or from 3D printing your own parts. To summarize, Elon Musk has a stated desire to build an electric VTOL aircraft sometime in the future when energy density of batteries reach greater than 400 wh/kg. Ed Nunez has a Production Certificate that Elon could use for this purpose with a factory in Kerrville, close to the worlds largest factory Elon is building in the US. Elon is a qualified buyer and it could simply be a matter of setting off the SEC by selling a few shares of stock, something he has been known to do to satisfy certain alleged native american senators