[thorn bird]

Interesting snippet in todays Australian by Robyn Ironside.

A new 35 year veteran of Australia's aviation industry has been appointed CEO of an Adelaide-based firm Turbine Aeronautics. Apparently the company is developing "revolutionary" turboprop engines for small aircraft as well as military UAV's.

All sounds very exciting and could be another example of Innovative, entrepreneurial spirit at work to actually start making stuff again in Australia.

Forgive me from being pessimistic, but our history is fraught with other examples of innovational idea's where hopes and dreams were dashed against the brick wall of our aviation regulator. I sincerely wish them well, but I fear even if they are successful with a revolutionary new engine, their enterprise will be crushed under the weight of draconian bureaucratic interference and disappear from our shore to foreign climes.