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Mah: Jet buyers can write off $12M jet with $3M down
“Last year it was 60% upfront, but now with the new administration, it looks like accelerated depreciation is back. So if you bought a twelve million dollar airplane, financed it, you can write off the whole twelve million dollars off your tax bill, even though…”
Urban: Airplane technology has stagnated for 40 years
“So we basically haven't progressed in like 40 years with airplanes really.”
Jess Mah: My airplane tax write-off exceeded the cash down payment
“I did this with my airplane. I mean, I had a bigger write-off from buying the airplane than what I put down in cash to buy the airplane.”
An electric airplane experiences its worst performance on its very first day
“It's an entire new paradigm in aviation, because when you buy an airplane, it's worst performance will be on its first day. And every year when you put new batteries into that, you get better performance.”
The 1960 U-2 Shootdown Was History's First Surface-to-Air Missile Kill
“This was the first time in history that a ground-to-air missile had shot down
An airplane.”
Smith: A headline claimed airplanes were a million years away in 1903
“I think I read another headline that said it would take over a million years for the airplane to be successful, only to which I believe the Wright brothers took flight two months later.”
Marinelli: Embraer monitors all airplane manufacturing machinery with Traction
“So they monitor basically all the machinery that produces the airplane. So if you think about, there's a bunch of motors, engines, compressors, pumps turbines, generators all basically rotational machine. So I've done computer engineering, not mechanical engin…”
Ridley: Technology evolves through Darwinian selection, not just intelligent design
“In that sense, they really, you know, the airplane and the boat really have evolved. It's not a metaphor. It's what's actually happening to them.”
Garneau: Transport Canada Sets Airline Legroom Rules Strictly for Evacuation Safety
“Airplanes have to provide a certain leg room, elbow room spacing for safety reasons, in case you have to evacuate the airplane quickly. And that is a Transport Canada requirement. Now, we establish minimums.”
Asset mobility makes the airline industry uniquely competitive, says Kelleher
“Our principal capital assets, the airplanes, move at 540 miles an hour. And, you know, if you have a shoe factory that, that fails in Seattle, as an example, you can't, within hours, transport that shoe factory to Chattanooga, Tennessee to compete there. But i…”