Siphoning Fuel Continues to be Relevant


James Fallows:

This is why, after one crack at it, I won’t be doing a lot of small-airplane flying in China any more. Here is how a Cirrus SR-22 got fueled up at the main airport in Changsha, capital of Hunan province. (Man in the truck is Peter Claeys, intrepid Cirrus salesman for China. Other men, including the luckless one working the siphon, are involved in local aviation.)

More on “free flight”, here.