Aircraft and avionics are excempted for som period of time.

The statement regarding aOA display is incorrect. All current production Boeing aircraft can be configured to display current AOA, target AOA, and limitations in the top right corner of the primary flight display. Whether this option is displayed or used depends on the specific airline's operating certificate and FAA approved procedures specific to that airline. http://www.boeing.com/commerci... The illustration above is old, so it does not mention that this feature is also on the 787 ( which i have flown with AOA active) and on the 747-8 ( which I have not flown but have seen the AOA feature used from the jumpseat)

You are wrong. Generally SAM missle systems (i.e. not MANPDS) generally ARE equipped with transponder/IFF code selection. In the Russian case the BUK missile is capable of being operated seperately from it's command and control ground radar, in which case it looses IFF protection.

Both Chase and Citi offer them. I have a Citi that I use for European travel.

I sure hope the post the results on YouTube.

I like Apple's approach to standards... embrace and extend.

Entire article summarized in 3 panels: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/3/19/

Hear hear. I took a friend flying and he was literally shocked that there was no security screening. I told him he was free to feel up his own junk if he felt it was absolutely necessary, buy I wasn't doing it for him. My airline is strictly self-fondling.

Luckily there is a pretty significant movement to change that the LSA gross weight limit to 1600 lbs. A lot of the current LSAs are payload limited by this regulation, but are structurally capable of 1600 lb MTOW.