Ideas for long flight to midwest

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:Smeig.1013719$xm3.369036@attbi_s21...
Unless they moved it BACK to Dayton, the original Wright Bros bike shop
is actually in Dearborn, MI at Greenfield Village.

I know. But Dayton has re-built the bike shop, supposedly to spec, in its original location.

I've always wondered which idiot local politician mortgaged Dayton's future to Henry Ford, way back when?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"


You folks are so cynical...

The city was going to tear it down; it was built in a flood plain. Turns out a short time after Ford moved the shop the
area was flooded anyway. The bike shop they have 'restored' is something like the second shop they opened, and is not
the shop where they built the flyer.

All of Dearborn Village and the Ford museum is a very cool stop, if possible. I think it is one of the best monuments to
the industrial age in the USA.

("Newps" wrote)
Going to ANE next Wednesday night or Thursday morning, any hangars
available for a week that would be cheaper than Cirrus?


Arrive: Wed 14th or Thur 15th?
Depart: Wed 21st?

I'll check the weekend crowd - if it stops drizzling by then.

It's 50F/Mist Friday evening at ANE.

I might not have a good lead for you until Monday - when the worker bees are
where I know they'll be. I seem to know more of them than regular folks over
there.

There's a few contacts I can phone for you. Hope it works out.


Montblack

Thanks.




Montblack wrote:
("Newps" wrote)

Going to ANE next Wednesday night or Thursday morning, any hangars
available for a week that would be cheaper than Cirrus?



Arrive: Wed 14th or Thur 15th?
Depart: Wed 21st?

I'll check the weekend crowd - if it stops drizzling by then.

It's 50F/Mist Friday evening at ANE.

I might not have a good lead for you until Monday - when the worker bees
are
where I know they'll be. I seem to know more of them than regular folks
over
there.

There's a few contacts I can phone for you. Hope it works out.


Montblack

Forget Batavia for Sporty's. Unless you are going to specifically pick
something up, thumbing through their catalog or paging through their online
catalog is much, much more interesting.

Don't get me wronge - beautiful airport. Beautiful Sporty's building. But
what's inside was a waste of time for me.

Small selection of what they offer - although they could get you anything
you wanted at the counter. No restaurant of any kind on the field. In fact,
even the vending machines were below par.

I was expecting to spend several hours there. Instead, I paid for fuel,
spent 10 minutes looking at everything they had on display, had lunch of a
bag of chips and a Pepsi, and got out of there as quickly as I could.

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Travis
Lake N3094P
PWK
"Robet Coffey" wrote in message
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I thought Sporty's was neat for a short visit in Ohio. If you make it that
far east might as well drop by Downtown Island KDKX in Knoxville, Tn or the
warbird museum in Gatlinburg Tn.
Wings wrote:
We have a Cherokee 140 and have flown to OSH twice.

So this year we decided we would try instead to fly from California to
North Carolina (FFA)!

But scheduling problems cut two days out of our schedule, making the east
coast a bit too much of a stretch.

So we're planning on leaving Friday from CMA, going east to Amarillo on
the first day. After that... some combination of where the weather is
better and what is interesting. We're thinking we'll go east of the
Mississippi, perhaps Ohio, Kentucky, etc. So my question for you
midwesterners is: where is interesting to visit? Any great airports? Any
good museums? Anything noteworthy? We're pretty flexible on where we can
go, so give us some suggestions and I'll post a trip report in a week and
a half or so!

Tim Long
PA28-140
Camarillo, CA

I've always wanted to go to the Air Force museum in
Dayton, OH. I've heard that it is great.

Yes -- this museum is HIGHLY recommended! One of the best -- in some ways,
better than even the NASM in Washington, DC.


But neither are not quite as good as the National Naval Aviation Museum in
Pensacola. And that's not just because I've got one flight in the A-7E
Corsair II on display there!

Go Navy, Beat Air Force!


- Don
All good things arrive unto them that wait...
and don't die in the meantime. - Mark Twain

Forget Batavia for Sporty's.
Small selection of what they offer - although they could get you anything
you wanted at the counter. No restaurant of any kind on the field. In fact,
even the vending machines were below par.

I was expecting to spend several hours there. Instead, I paid for fuel,
spent 10 minutes looking at everything they had on display, had lunch of a
bag of chips and a Pepsi, and got out of there as quickly as I could.

Agree 100%. If there has been one truly disappointing flight in my log
book, it was our trip to Sporty's in Batavia, OH. Their facility is so
gorgeous and promising, and their catalog is so well-done, that I
really expected Sporty's to be a great place to visit.

It wasn't, for reasons that still escape me. They've got the facility
and traffic for a truly good store and restaurant, but have instead
chosen to install a bunch of really bad vending machines, and a tiny
show-room.

For a company that trumpets its support for GA in every magazine to
offer such a lame fly-in-shopping experience is truly ironic, IMHO.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

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"Travis Marlatte" wrote:

I was expecting to spend several hours there. Instead, I paid for fuel,
spent 10 minutes looking at everything they had on display, had lunch of a
bag of chips and a Pepsi, and got out of there as quickly as I could.

And the fuel is not cheap, either!

In article . com,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:


It wasn't, for reasons that still escape me. They've got the facility
and traffic for a truly good store and restaurant, but have instead
chosen to install a bunch of really bad vending machines, and a tiny
show-room.

You are in the hotel business, not the restaurant business (yet?).
Restaurants have the highest failure rate of any business.
Hal is a shrewed business man and will not put his money where it will
not deliver a sufficent, steady return.

For a company that trumpets its support for GA in every magazine to
offer such a lame fly-in-shopping experience is truly ironic, IMHO.

What's lame about it?
He has better stock than anyone else out there.
You can tryout anything you want to buy before purchasing it. (Well,
there are a few things I can think of that you cannot, maybe not the
everything, but most of them.)

Addison Airport Addison TX has a nice museum, easy to get in, hard to
get out. Just waiting for all the traffic. This is north downtown Dallas.

On lake Texoma, north of Dallas is 3T0. Grass airfield, cabins on the
airport to rent, or you can camp. http://www.cedarmills.com/airfield.htm

Fayetteville, AR Drake Field (KFYV) has a museum on the field. Small,
but interesting.

If you come east from Amarillo, stop by at KSWI. We try to have the
lowest 100LL available. Also, Palo Duro Canyon south of Amarillo is a
nice visit, as is the western museum in Canyon, TX south of Amarillo.

Ross
KSWI

Wings wrote:

We have a Cherokee 140 and have flown to OSH twice.

So this year we decided we would try instead to fly from California to
North Carolina (FFA)!

But scheduling problems cut two days out of our schedule, making the east
coast a bit too much of a stretch.

So we're planning on leaving Friday from CMA, going east to Amarillo on the
first day. After that... some combination of where the weather is better
and what is interesting. We're thinking we'll go east of the Mississippi,
perhaps Ohio, Kentucky, etc.

So my question for you midwesterners is: where is interesting to visit? Any
great airports? Any good museums? Anything noteworthy? We're pretty
flexible on where we can go, so give us some suggestions and I'll post a
trip report in a week and a half or so!

Tim Long
PA28-140
Camarillo, CA

I may have to make a trip there!

Ross
KSWI

Gene Seibel wrote:

Kansas Cosmosphere. The current facility includes an IMAX Dome theatre
(originally OMNIMAX), the Justice Planetarium, and the 2nd largest
collection of US space artifacts in the world (second only to the
National Air and Space Museum). On display:
Liberty Bell 7
SR-71 Blackbird
Odyssey command module from Apollo 13
Restored V-1 and V-2 rockets
Replica Redstone and Titan II launch vehicles
Restored versions of World War II V-1 and V-2 rockets
Prototype and space-flown American and Russian spacesuits
Moon rock
Full-scale mock-up of Space Shuttle (left side of craft only)
Section from Berlin Wall
Lunar Rover
Copy of Chuck Yeager's X-1, "Glamourous Glennis"
Actual, flown Gemini X spacecraft
Flown Russian Vostok spacecraft

http://www.cosmo.org/
--
Gene Seibel
Gene & Sue's Aeroplanes - http://pad39a.com/gene/planes.html
Because we fly, we envy no one.



Wings wrote:

We have a Cherokee 140 and have flown to OSH twice.

So this year we decided we would try instead to fly from California to
North Carolina (FFA)!

But scheduling problems cut two days out of our schedule, making the east
coast a bit too much of a stretch.

So we're planning on leaving Friday from CMA, going east to Amarillo on the
first day. After that... some combination of where the weather is better
and what is interesting. We're thinking we'll go east of the Mississippi,
perhaps Ohio, Kentucky, etc.

So my question for you midwesterners is: where is interesting to visit? Any
great airports? Any good museums? Anything noteworthy? We're pretty
flexible on where we can go, so give us some suggestions and I'll post a
trip report in a week and a half or so!

Tim Long
PA28-140
Camarillo, CA