Unique Idea for "Airshow" May 21-22

Jay Honeck wrote:
Well, maybe it's not unique -- but *I've* never seen one like it
before.
See:

http://www.alexisparkinn.com/Photoga...Show/Flyer.htm

A local church group is putting on a "Big Kids Toy Show" at our
airport
(KIOW) on May 21st and 22nd. It will be a fly-in breakfast both
mornings,
with all sorts of Big Boy Toys on display.

Everything from airplanes, to boats, to motorcycles, to Humvees will
be
displayed -- putting all of our bad habits and obsessions in one
place!
:-)

Anyone else ever seen this done before? I've offered to help them
promote
the event -- has anyone been involved with something like this? Any
words
of advice, or things to avoid?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

A Safety comittee and safety officer must be appointed.

And given the task of marhsalling the crowd correctlly.

Airplanes and kids do not mix otherwise. The parents walk
arround assuming all the safety stuff is taken care of
by "not them".

"Jay Honeck" writes:

A local church group is putting on a "Big Kids Toy Show" at our airport
(KIOW) on May 21st and 22nd. It will be a fly-in breakfast both mornings,
with all sorts of Big Boy Toys on display.

Everything from airplanes, to boats, to motorcycles, to Humvees will be
displayed -- putting all of our bad habits and obsessions in one place!
:-)

Anyone else ever seen this done before?

Our local airport group started doing this 2 years ago. We have
static displays of our airplanes, plus cars (a few each of antiques,
hot rods, and experimental fuel cells), bicycles (this is Davis), and
so on. We call it Transportation Day or something.

i went to an event something like this at west houston (lakeside iws)
maybe a year ago as i was considering dumping the cash to get into
flying but it was bent a bit more to military toys although i remember
they had some major motorcycles and boy-toy things limited to what
they could do with all those wives around although some wives might
wonder if him gettin a girlfriend would be cheaper!

this is just one of those great ideas whose time has come.

if you really want to identify cases of arrested development with cash
how could you improve upon the targeting of pilots? what better place
to sell high end toys than an airport?

haven't seen the hughes movie, kinda savoring the idea of it, but i'm
real up on the story and also old enough to remember when airfields
were regarded, in the community, as green cathedrals where only very
special and frequently crazy monks could go. the news; papers and
radio, were filled with the latest, fastest and all the names &
pictures. some of that allure or panache or whatever you call it still
attaches to things aviatish and airports are profiting from that by
producing or welcoming events like those y'all described.

more

dan

this is just one of those great ideas whose time has come.

I agree. I think a key to the survival of airports in communities like mine
is the expansion of their usefulness into venues like this one.

If this one show brings, say, 10,000 people to our airport, and inspires a
few of them to look into GA, we all win. Better yet, if those 10,000
people tell four of their friends what a great time they had at the airport,
we will possibly convert hundreds (thousands?) of people who were (at best)
ambivalent toward the airport into an aviation enthusiast.

At first I was taken aback by the idea as playing on the "rich pilot"
stereotype that aggravates me so much. However, the more I think about it,
the better I like it.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:
this is just one of those great ideas whose time has come.


I agree. I think a key to the survival of airports in communities like mine
is the expansion of their usefulness into venues like this one.

If this one show brings, say, 10,000 people to our airport, and inspires a
few of them to look into GA, we all win. Better yet, if those 10,000
people tell four of their friends what a great time they had at the airport,
we will possibly convert hundreds (thousands?) of people who were (at best)
ambivalent toward the airport into an aviation enthusiast.

At first I was taken aback by the idea as playing on the "rich pilot"
stereotype that aggravates me so much. However, the more I think about it,
the better I like it.

Young Eagles is another great way to get people to have a positive
opinion of the airport. While few of the kids who go for a flight will
actually become pilots, they will become voters, city council persons, etc.

- J.O.-

Sounds great Jay!
I'll rent a C-130 and bring my 87 Monte Carlo SS and my 71 Cutlass in
the cargo bay.

What? I cant rent a C-130? whatdya mean insurance wont cover me?
Can I borrow one from MFD or YNG (AF Res/ANG bases)?
I can't fly it with a PP-ASEL?
Type rating?
The wx is going to be IFR? (altho I should have my IA by then...)
I can't get the time off work?

details, details...

Hope you do it next year!

Maybe I can sling the Monte under the rental Archer and fly it out
with me...

---Don (sarcasm is still alive and well in Cleveland Ohio)

Don Byrer
Electronics Technician
FAA Airways Facilites/Tech Ops, RADAR/Data/Comm @ CLE
Amateur Radio KJ5KB
Private Pilot Instrument Student
PP-ASEL 30 Jan 2005