Carl would likely have been at the reins most of it's life. Someone posted this earlier (I'm sorry, I haven't found that posting going back a few pages to link-back) http://www.wingsmagazine.com/content/view/2477/
This shows that Carl was firmly at the helm right up until his death in 2006...
Perhaps Wayne's focus wasn't so much on who was he going to leave it to, as so much as he wanted to build it back up to what it once was. Since 1990, Millardair was a shadow of what it once was before bankruptcy. What they had in personal assets, was likely what is left of the Carl Millard...
Lot's of family businesses founder at the third generation. This is a classic example of that, gone badly.
1 - party animal - *check
2 - never really knew the true value of money, never really earned it - *check
3 - more money required to actually start up the K-W MRO with 50-90 clerical...
Cheaper to call a waste recycling company for a contract pick-up, who will even provide the containers that they use, for the recycling of petrochemicals, antifreeze mixtures etc.. no need to burn it on-site, and the recycling cost is minimal, considering that these liquids are re-refined, and...
As i remember it, the all-white R4D? (DC3) sitting on Apron beside the hangers?
The one that i remember being parked there was being used for parts the last time i saw it years ago. I don't believe that Millardair has any connection with that aircraft, any longer ..other than ghosted...
The incinerator unit itself, might have been under $7k. It was bolted onto a trailer unit that is quite an expensive one, at that - basically a converted car-carrying dual-axle platform.
So as a package deal, $20k retail cost is inline with that setup, given a cost of the incinerator unit...
A farmer also usually has an ongoing brush-pile occupying a section of otherwise unusable land, ready to burn in-situ when there is enough there in quantity worthwhile to strike a match to. Certainly cheaper than a 20k incinerator unit sitting around needing storage/servicing/fuel to operate...
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