When flying, might want to avoid any kind of faux uniform, epaulets, leather helmet, goggles, bomber jacket, etc. 

Suggest Hawaiian shirt, cargo shorts, sandals and baseball cap.

How do y'all feel about Navions tarted up as faux warbirds?

I'm looking to buy a Navion in a few months and I've noticed that a number of them have been painted in military markings.  I've never served in the military, and the particular aircraft has never been in the military.   I can see painting an aircraft to match my service, or having an actual warbird painted in its service colors.  But I see Navions in all sorts of military markings.  I can get past an ugly paintjob, but fake military just doesn't feel right to me.

Get what you want. If it has military paint scheme, it's part of the plane. Don't let the right plane get away just because you are concerned about the paint job. If anyone gives you flack, just tell them you bought it that way, and are collecting donations for a repaint. Guessing they will walk away.

I'm the parent bastard from hell. All my kids were barred from most all social media until college. They could join up with thing associated with school or their specific activities. As for peer pressure, social media presence is no different from all the same shit in the last generation. Don't treat it any different. Incorrect clothes, wrong hairstyle, Funky car, bad shoes. Fuckem all.

All of my kids are extremely successful, and well advanced in their field already and they just graduated 4 & 3 years ago. Don't abrogate the parent duties just because of technology and access to a world of info. Make it count.

One more thing, as noted in the vid, parents can be just as bad as kids with getting wrapped up in social media. We NEVER, EVER put out any kind of social media info about our kids, or what they do, or accomplish, or how much better they are than the others. The kids were shown by US how we respected, and appreciated their success, and we commiserated with their failures. My girl said the failures were more instructive about life, and people than the successes.

Merkel doubles down.

https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/13/merkel-macron-european-army-trump/

At the cost of nothing, and the gain of plenty, I'm ready to take my US Army and all our materiel and come home from EU. Let them fight off the bear if they want to get a big head about it.

BTW, I served in NATO, if anyone cares.

Congrats!  Maybe I missed it.  What plane are you getting?

Thanks, not a done deal yet. You didn't miss it, I haven't given any details. Aside from saying it has wings, fuselage, and pretty black tires, I will be keeping the details confidential to protect me from those who would/do wish me ill-will.

Unless/until those laws are broken, challenged, and escalated to SCOTUS, the defendant will LOSE in every case. Heller v DC is the gold standard of defense for the 2nd A and here's a snippet at the end of the ruling: "Nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions on the commercial sale of arms."

So, the SCOTUS just carved out a HUGE loophole in the 2nd A allowing lesser govts to stand with their laws and regulations until each one is tested at the fed level. It's estimated that the cost of the Heller decision was about $3.6 million and it took more than 5 years. The court was divided by 5-4, and could easily have gone the other way. While the current court is in no danger of overturning Heller, the forces of gun control took careful note of the arguments, and the limitations of the ruling. Modern laws on gun control have been carefully designed to work their way around Heller. In the case of WA it sounds exactly like they are 'permitting' the individual to keep and bear, but that the 'bear' is being restricted by the various trigger lock, unloading, locked cabinet, etc.

Each and every one of these cases will have to go through state appeals, then the fed circuit, and finally to the SCOTUS. If you live in a circuit with a liberal court, even if you have the money, it will likely get rejected from cert to SCOTUS, and the circuit court ruling against the defendant will stand.

Sorry.

Get a Stinson, and call it a day.

They are good flyers and land like a dream. Outstanding design, and I think very good looking. Unfortunately, no matter if one fits 800HP on it, the plane will only go 117MPH in a vertical dive.