Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!itivax!vax3!aws From: aws@vax3.iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: Don't Mess with NASA (afterburners) Message-ID: <2335@itivax.iti.org> Date: 24 Jul 89 17:54:41 GMT References: <8907201027.AA07833@osteocyber.ortho.hmc.psu.edu> <1989Jul20.184051.19979@utzoo.uucp> <1989Jul21.193401.19303@utzoo.uucp> Sender: news@itivax.iti.org Reply-To: aws@vax3.UUCP (Allen W. Sherzer) Organization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow Lines: 27 In article shafer@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) writes: >Since a private market for high-performance, jet "fighter" aircraft >does exist, why is this market _so_ small? Price. >Why is there essentially only one entry in the market? There are more than one. I know of people who own F-86's. A company in Addison Tx. has imported some Alpha jets which it sells (for about 2M each). A company in CA inports MIG-19's from China and is attempting to get permission to import MIG-21's. The Alpha and Mig-21 will do better than mach 1. Finally, although not jets, there are a lot of WWII fighters out there. >Maybe the market has decided that this >isn't an appropriate place to allocate resources? The great thing about a free market it that it isn't monolithic. There is nobody allocating resources. Allen ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Allen Sherzer | DETROIT: | | aws@iti.org | Where the weak are killed and eaten | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------