Earth to "bd5er", the ratio of "non-aviation commercial BS" to
aviation related stuff at Oshkosh is EXCEEDINGLY SMALL.

Earth to David: Can you count. Last time I attended I could walk down an
entire row in the flymart and not see a single aviatiion related booth. The
ratiio of aviation to BS HAS changed over the last 20 years. If I want all
that other BS I'll just attend the local county fair.

Understand this, the show will NEVER return to those lazy good ol'
days of yore when homebuilts were the biggest part of the show.

Then I may never return. Homebuilts is why I went. If that is not the main
attraction I'm not going to waste my time. Large numbers of people is not
really my "thing" but if they were there to talk HOMEBUILDING, and not plug
the isle up in front of the waterless cookware demo, than the more the better.

As for http://www.sportaviation.org/ :

He couldn't keep control of one organization and keep it on track (if that was
ever the intent) so what is there to make me think this group isn't headed down
the same track?

The only true homebuilt oriented flyins any more seem to be the little "type"
fly-ins. I'd love to look at Piets, T-18, Kr's, old Aeroncas, Swifts, ....the
list goes on. Oshkosh WAS the place to go to see all of that but now if you
want to actually talk to the owner and look under the cowl you have to fly to a
few dozen type events to do the same thing. With the "Airventure" trying to be
all things to all people it's original usefullness has been lost. When I first
went it was rare to see a plane roped off so you couldn't walk up and look
inside or crawl under the wing to look at some datail. But then we didn't have
the hoards of uneducated people ripping the planes apart due to ignorance.

If you think the "Airventure" is so great the way it is, that's fine with me.
But I either feel kind of sorry for you that you missed the "good 'ol days", or
wounder why you didn't really appreciate what we had and don't want to share
the good times with others again.

As for the cop-out catch all - "but it brings new people into, and promote,
general aviation". That IMHO opinion is NOT the job of the annual EAA fly in.
That job is yours and mine, every day of the year.