Tell that to my fathers best friend growing up. He is an old skool hot rod guy, and was famous in the area for 2 projects. At the time an untouchable El Camino with “MasterCard” painted down the side. This guy is an amazing engineer and automotive wiz. Between the time he had the el camino he also had a few planes, countless cars, outlaw sprint car, hydroplanes, crazy rc cars, planes and helis’, sleds, etc. Ed had more toys backed into his shop its crazy! Quick story, one day I went over there and he had a brand new Bussa, one of the first ones produced. He went to a show room and said Ill take that one. The guy said do you know its supposed to do 200mph off the floor, he said yeah I want to find out if it will. about 5 miles into its life he was there fitting 2 cameras on the bike, one at the speedometer and one off the front forks then took it to the ari strip down the road from his shop.
then along came a flatbed with many big boxes, and a few months later “mastercard 2” was assembled. A Rotorway Exec 90 helicopter! Maxed out his credit card and bought, built and flew it all himself.
Rotorway found out about him and hired him on to build, inspect and flight train people all over the united states, making a great living doing what he loves.
if it wernt for the credit card… he never would have gotten a chance.