Sun'n Fun Used to Be the Gathering of the Good Ol' Boys of Flying

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" jls" wrote:

"Ron Wanttaja" wrote in message
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On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 08:59:21 -0500, " jls"
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Now this is the kind of response from a little parasite who's a gutless,
weaselly insider and knows how it all works, including how to turn a
ragged
out Cessna into an award-winner.

Hmmmm....I would have thought this was a GOOD thing. He also built an
RV-4
(Do a Google Groups search on "ARSA Fighter").

If any of you don't know who Whizzmire
is, you ought to study him a little cause he bears watching.

Uggg, Ed is hard enough on the eyes just to glance at, much less
stare at. :-)

He likes to appear in photo-ops with EAA bigwigs...

I know Ed pretty well, and I don't recall ever seeing a picture of him
with
any "EAA bigwigs." But he is a member of the EAA Homebuilder's Council,
so
his picture has probably appeared in the EAA magazines. Also, he
volunteers as a photographer at Oshkosh, so you certainly might see him
around events where bigwigs are involved.

I've known Ed for a number of years, and we were both members of Chapter
441 here in Seattle. I don't think I've *ever* heard him "drop a name."
The most you ever heard from him along those lines was, "I'll bring it up
at the next Council meeting."

But wait...wait...I think I *do* recall seeing Ed in a photo of EAA
bigwigs. I originally thought it was a lens flare, down at the bottom of
the image, but it could have been sunlight reflecting off the top of Ed's
head! :-)

and he knows how to pull many of the ropes to advantage himself,
including trying to hide what they're doing this year at Sun'n'Gouge.

Why would he do that? AFAIK, he had no connection to the Fly-In, though I
don't doubt that he volunteers there like he does at Oshkosh. With that
experience, he might have a little more insight into the problems and
difficulties of putting on an event this large.

Ron Wanttaja

OK, Ron, so you're both in the same chapter but my experience with him, as
opposed to experience with you, is decidedly negative. He argues
contentiously, like a stickler, without authority ( and most of the time
without good sense) and appears to be a self-interested toady without much
of a moral code. If he's your archetypal ombudsman for EAA, then imho the
organization could do better.

If he has authority or a cite which shows the rule at Sun'n Fun forbidding
backpacks has been rescinded then he should publish a link. He didn't say
ANYTHING about the ban on ice chests. By banning ice chests, that means
they're gouging, pure and simple. And despite your defense of the little
weasel, I say he's toadying. Many of the people hereabouts have discussed
the ban on ice chests and are not attending this year. I'm not either. If
enough people boycott the sonsabitches enough to hurt their pocketbooks and
embarrass them a little, they'll stop that foolishness.

Banning ice chests at Sun'n Fun in the name of security is not for
safety --- it's a gouge.



IMHO, "jls" is WAY out of line here! I have known (and wworked with Ed)
for the last 20+ years abd have NEVER seen Ed exhibit the
characteristics "jls" attributes to him.

Granted, Ed may have a penchant for keeping ducks, and his taste in
airplanes and music leave something to be desired, but Ed IS
well-imformed and usually knows what he is talking about.

As for Ed's moral code, I doubt that you will find a person whose
standards are higher.