>...modified and then sold for $1K plus.
All, no doubt, legal and allowable costs.
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Funniest thing I can talk about is the young man who came to Bell Helicopter one day - unannounced, trying to sell something. He was a tall skinny kid, long shoulder length hair, tie-dyed t-shirt wearing a bandanna around his neck. In short: a quintessential hippy-looking fellow (back during the day).
The guards let him in once he opened the trunk of his old, beat up car. In the trunk was a beautiful, fully functional streamlined fiberglass 50-cal machine gun pod with electronic targeting sensors he had developed. It was ready to be put on a helicopter and demonstrated. The “kid” had all the proper paperwork; everything was perfectly legal.... just unorthodox as hell. A small contingent of Bell Helicopter managers and engineers were sent out to meet this “hippy”. As far as I will say, things turned out pretty well for him.
