I’d like to replace my just sent post with the following update from Jeannie Schneider (you can
write to her directly at corvette38@yahoo.com:
Hey Bob, glad to hear from you!!!! If you could give me that Forum site and if there are questions I could answer them as best I can. Here is the scoop for this year with the
Lancairs (my babies):
Due to the increase of past grand champions by Homebuilt HQ, we have decided to make it easier on the larger
Lancairs. The XP's, IV's and turbines will be parking just west of the Lancair parking. You will be within a couple hundred feet of the usual Lancair area but we want to accommodate the requests of not having to go through all
the grass. So instead of turning to the left to where the smaller
Lancairs will park, we are going to take you down P1 and then turn left and down the side hard surface to a parking spot there. It will be easier to move the aircraft and the larger
Lancairs will all be together and within a short distance of the smaller
Lancairs.
We, Homebuilt Parking, are facing a few challenges this year.... we will not only be short staffed (this is a pitch for
more volunteers) but we have a large contingent of past grand champions coming that will fill most of the area in front of HB HQs which makes the other special parking spill into other rows that were designated previously for same type aircraft.
We and I feel this will definitely help with the taxing in the grass which has been a negative with pilots for a while,
especially the larger Lancairs. You won't be that far off of the
flightline and your aircraft will probably be more noticed there with visitors going from the main areas to the War Bird area.
I will be positioning my gator by
Lancairland to help with taxi-ing them to the spots we've picked out. I think you are really going to like this change. We've been trying to transition this for a while and what better time than now.
Just a side note.... as we have talked with you and Judy in the past, this year is the last year Scott and I will be attending
OSH. We have found that it is getting financially and logistically difficult to go to OSH now that we are living in FL. A couple weeks ago, my 96
yr old father left us to join my mom in heaven and we feel it's time we take some time for ourselves and let the younger generation fill our shoes. I can't tell you that I will miss the politics there, or the long hours, or the
lack of time off or lack of nourishment but we will greatly miss the wonderful relationships we have built with our "special" aircraft that come in. I personally love the
Lancairs and the people that allow us to take care of them when they come to OSH. It has been our pleasure to be of service to you and the beautiful aircraft you share with us.
Please pass the forum website to me and if you don't mind, I'd like to join and see if I can help with any questions any
of the members might have.
Thanks so much... see you in a week or so!!!!
Jeannie
aka Corvette38
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