One of my closest surgeon friends built his own airplane (One of the Van's series - a tail dragger). He looked at the cost as well as the performance hit of having it painted.
He decided to not paint.
Of course they will go back to work when the money runs dry.
And of course the media won’t be held accountable for the nonsense they have been spewing on this topic.
Horrific.
The remedy is clear. Remember the Stanford kid who raped an unconscious woman and got off lightly? The people eventually got the judge “retired”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Persky
By contributor Claire Cock-Starkey. A woman who was born Claire Cock, had a chance to change to Claire Starkey, but instead chose Claire Cock-Starkey. You have to respect that.
If that's a car, then so is a microlight. I could keep that in the garage, too, and it doesn't need a proper runway. Where I used to work, some guy used to land his in the field and visit us.