Dan, Dom,
the Princes and I arrived before sunup and began to organize the lot. Something was in the middle of the lot but we
couldn’t be sure of exactly what it was.
It turned out to be a very large Military tent that was erected in the
center of where we were going to be maneuvering trucks pulling long race car
trailers. We didn’t know if it was
inhabited or not so we quietly walked around the big olive drab canvas tent
looking for some kind of opening and when Dom found one and shined his
flashlight inside he said it was empty! Hmmmmm
We would wait and see who claimed it since we were supposed to have the
complete lot for vehicle display. Always
something to challenge us, grin. So Dan
and I decided how to bring the trailered vehicles in and park them so they
would have reasonably easy egress after the event. Ya have to be flexible.
After last year’s
event the airport manager, Tanya W., had asked us to have more vehicles….so….we
invited about 40 people for this year. A
couple had cancelled two weeks ago and last week another 3 had either cancelled
or said to count them as iffy. On Friday
another two cancelled so on the day of the event we really didn’t know how many
people would show up! This year Tanya
had set a porta potty close to us for our use but most of the spectators coming
in would use it before entering the air show!
Something to think about next year!
Ron was
leading the second group from Stafford that left at 6:30 so they started
arriving around 7:30 and the lot began filling up….whew! At the end of setting the vehicles out in
their parking spots we had 29 vehicles to share with the expected 7 thousand
people that would attend AirFest 2012. This
is the first year we invited a lot of vehicles that required trailers as we
wanted to continue to vary our display.
All the vehicles were well received but I think Bob’s blue race car and Glenn’s
group with the three pulling tractors generated the most interest.
The reason
we put this event on is to raise awareness and money for our charity, Fisher
House; http://www.fisherhouse.org/ and this year we raised $276 from individual
donations on site. We are working to
make this much better next year.
The air show
was as usual superb….Tanya and her group assembles a great flying program and
the vendors make the day go quickly too.
Art Nalls and his Harrier is a crowd stopper….and he did two programs
this year! You have to put this event on
your calendar next year….you won’t be disappointed. Please take some time to check out the YouTube
clip and the still pictures….it was an amazing day.
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