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🗓️ 11 January 2016
⏱️ 31 minutes
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The FAA has gone berserk regarding the amount of airspace it wants to regulate. A listener of the Tom Woods Show found that good, old-fashioned ridicule is the best approach when dealing with a ridiculous and unpopular law.
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0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 567. |
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0:47.4 | Drones and radio-controlled aircraft are our subject for today. |
0:51.8 | Dave Thacker is joining us. |
0:56.8 | Dave is a radio control aircraft enthusiast. |
1:04.0 | He sells electronics and kits for radio controlled aircraft at his website, Radicalrc.com. |
1:14.3 | He also blogs there, radicalrc.com slash blog. And the way he puts it, his current interest is in shaming the FAA for claiming the right to control ridiculous amounts of airspace. They're going to be talking about the regulation of what |
1:19.1 | really is just innocent activities by hobbyists. I'm going to, oh, by the way, for non-American |
1:24.7 | listeners, FAA is Federal Aviation Administration. I'm going to be linking to a lot of stuff on today's show notes page, tomwoods.com slash 567. There are annoying local and state laws that either have been proposed or have been implemented or are being repealed, having to do with this general subject. But we're going to talk in |
1:45.5 | particular about one in Ohio, that on the, basically with Christmas right around the corner, |
1:50.7 | it more or less shut down an entire industry, pretty much, by saying you can't have a radio |
1:58.0 | controlled device more than three ounces. I mean, we're going to talk all about it in a minute. |
2:03.1 | And then they turned around and said, oh, sorry, you can do that now that we just ruined your |
2:06.9 | whole Christmas season. So a lot to talk about with Dave Thacker today. Dave, thanks for being on the show. |
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