OK, the first part of this thread is pretty much run its course. I'd like to thank those of you who stayed on topic, and for the rest of you, nice try.
Let's now list BROAD subjects that our ideal fly-in (*) might have. Weather? Accommodations? Nearby interest? Target market? Local help from government? Large expanses of raw land?
(*) And don't call it Oshkosh. Oshkosh, headed the way it is going, will implode upon itself in sweet time. What we are building will be the NEXT 50 years of fly-in. Our kids and our kids kids will doubtless do this again after we are gone to replace our ideal after the inevitable maturity implosion occurs.
So let's pick a name, purely arbitrary -- and in honor of Richard Bach, who wrote about HIS ideal fly-in 50 years ago, I'm proposing that we call it the SEBASTIAN fly-in. (Richard's great-great granddaddy was Johann SEBASTIAN Bach.)
See you over on the new thread once we pick what we think is the most important next subject.
By the way, what I glean from THIS thread is that we draw a quadrilateral across the central US starting at Sault St. Marie, down to Little Rock, across to El Paso, up to Spearfish SD, back to SSM.
As somebody suggested, we draw concentric circles with Kansas City at the center and the further away we get from the center the less desirable the location. This is NOT to say that if we find something 500 miles away with everything else perfect that we wouldn't settle on it.
Thanks,,
Jim
