Bruce, A similar thing is happening in the private pilot community. Many of us recreational pilots earned our licenses long ago when flying was relatively cheap and it was still exciting to lots of youth. Now, we are older, flying is more expensive, and the "youth" only want to be involved if they have a career goal that involves aviation. And there aren't that many of those kids. The marketability of the older planes will decrease over the next 20 years and many will be scrapped because of lack of demand and lack of willingness to sacrifice to include aviation in the lifestyle. Joe Fulton ----- Original Message ---- From: Bruce Hevner <scramblr@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Mon, July 2, 2012 6:18:39 PM Subject: [AMC-list] The Beginning of the end of a 60 year era? I see this very thing in my shop all the time. VERY few young cubs wanting to modify engines. I can remember working 60 hour weeks in a "speed shop" when I was 16,, and I LIKED it!! When they close the shop I run now there is no one waiting to take it over. All done and closed for good. Shame,,, Bruce Hevner http://autospeed.com/cms/A_112816/article.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.amc-list.com/pipermail/amc-list-amc-list.com/attachments/20120702/0e94e6c6/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ AMC-list mailing list AMC-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://list.amc-list.com/listinfo.cgi/amc-list-amc-list.com _______________________________________________ AMC-list mailing list AMC-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://list.amc-list.com/listinfo.cgi/amc-list-amc-list.com