Mike wrote:
jwc50 wrote:
It will be good news if the MAM/Fighter Factory survives as a primarily static vintage aviation museum.
I would call that 'bad news'. We have enough of those already with Evergreen, Palm Springs, Tillamook, Kalamazoo, the former Champlin collection, etc. I would rather see the collection broken up and the aircraft sold to new owners who will keep them in the air than have it become yet another mausoleum full of dead airframes.
"You would rather see..." How about the thousands of people that visit the museum every year, on the hundreds of days when there ISN'T flying taking place? How about those of us locals who treasure this little slice of aviation heaven over in Va Beach and go there every chance we get just to be around the airplanes? How about the volunteers and staff of the museum who have invested years of their lives to build this into an amazing facility?
You've had your say. So here's mine. I would rather see the naysayers and crap-talkers on forums all over the internet shut their festering gobs for half a d@mned second and appreciate the fact that 1) Jerry Yagen has built this absolutely incredible collection dedicated to military aviation, 2) that he offers unprecedented public access to this goldmine, and 3) that the Museum has just gone through the toughest period of it's entire existence and is finally beginning to get back to work. We have repeated assurances things are going to be fine and aircraft will get back in the air, but even if they didn't, WE STILL WANT THE MUSEUM HERE.
So give the Museum and it's hardworking personnel their due. That's what *I* would rather see. Naive of me, I'm certain, but since we're wishing for stupid things, I may as well put it out there.
Lynn