« Reply #944 on: Thu, 24 January 2019, 20:08:01 »
When I used to travel around a bit for work, we would take these small dodgy rural planes.
Several years ago I applied for a job with a company whose primary business was custom and small-production signs for companies and buildings. A big section of the company was a welding shop which worked primarily with aluminum.
The owner was getting serious about to hiring me, and told me that I would be doing a lot of regional traveling with him and that he hated the nuisance and expense of commercial flying. He said that he had just gotten a plane and that we would be flying in that.
Researching online on his name, I saw extensive recently searching for "wrecked or repairable" airplanes. I cooled off on the job quite a bit, and he hired someone else.
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