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Off topic Philosophy, but still relevant to the Aviation business

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Aerowerx

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From a book I just started reading*

Substitute "airplane company" for the bold-type words when you read this.

It's not like it used to be. A couple of fellows could set up and kick off a small foundry and make a nice living at it without much hassle. It's a new ball game. You can operate a small one- or two-man brass foundry today and be more efficient at what you do than the larger shops. It is a good trick but not hard to learn.

Keep things small and own it all is the first rule. The second rule is don't get greedy. Poor management is the downfall of many a business---as is too much management. We have two extremes in which we can get into with a horse. First, we can all be in the front feeding the horse with nobody around back with a shovel taking care of that end. It doesn't take much imagination to see what would happen (that's where the country is today). Second, we could all be around back of the horse with shovels with no one around front feeding the horse.

The proper ratio between the fellows up front and the fellows behind the horse is what we need for a viable profitable operation. With the one-man operation, you have to run from end to end. That's a mean task.
But at least you have control of both ends.

The time was when you had little or no problem getting foundry supplies. in small quantities, the foundry supply houses were owned and run by actual foundry experts. Today most, if not all foundry suppliers operate on a large scale and are not interested in the small operator.....

Don't you love that analogy?

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*"Casting Brass" by C.W. Ammen, 1985, by Tab Books, Inc.
 
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