My views on Covid Today  

The 429 got it's weight increase of 500 a while back, two of them are used here in Idaho for EMS.  They have been in service now for 5 or 6 years.  From what I know, the flight crews love them, but the owner says the cost per hour is much higher then projected.  The 214 was awesome, sooo much power!  Trans would take 1800 HP and the engine at sea level produced over 4,000 HP.  It had a VNE for climb.

I can not think of a single thing that free enterprise could not do better than the government, not one thing!  
It has been said that if the government produced beer it would be over $100.00 a 6 pac.  One of the big items about costs is goverment math,  None of the goverment works on standard accounting rules and procedures.  For example they don't account future retirement funds as current costs.  Funny goverment accounting does not indicate true costs, I really think they have NO clue.