Oshkosh rumor about camping

[Jim Gardiner]

Reliability on this, is at best fair to unsubstantiated.....

The rumor is as follows:

Antique/classic/vintage/the guys south of the Communication Tower are not
letting any homebuilts camp in their camping area due to the fact Homebuilts
has a new camping area off the end of Papa 1.


Fact: there is absolutely not enough room in the Homebuilt camping area to
have all camping homebuilts in the new section.

If anyone knows more (facts about this, not speculation or heresay) please
respond.

[Russell Kent]

"Jim Gardiner" >
> Reliability on this, is at best fair to unsubstantiated.....
>
> The rumor is as follows:
>
> Antique/classic/vintage/the guys south of the Communication Tower are not
> letting any homebuilts camp in their camping area due to the fact
Homebuilts
> has a new camping area off the end of Papa 1.
>
>
> Fact: there is absolutely not enough room in the Homebuilt camping area to
> have all camping homebuilts in the new section.
>
> If anyone knows more (facts about this, not speculation or heresay) please
> respond.

Here are some facts.

First, the Vintage newsletter mentions the new parking area for homebuilt
camping, and the expectation that there will be additional space in Vintage
because of the new area:
http://www.vintageaircraft.org/news/2004%20-%2004%20-%20VA%20News.html

Second, I've sent an email to a Vintage officer (Geoff Robison) and expect
to have the definitive answer later today. I'll post the answer here.

Russell Kent

[Russell Kent]

I emailed Geoff Robison regarding the issue of homebuilt campers in the
Vintage area. Here is his response (I edited his email address and phone
number to make the spam bots work harder. --RKent)


-----Original Message-----
From: CHIEF7025 you-know-what-symbol-goes-here aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 1:16 PM
To: r-kent you-know-what-symbol-goes-here ti.com
Cc: hgfrautschy you-know-what-symbol-goes-here eaa.org
Subject: Re: Question regarding homebuilt camping

Well.....you raise a tough question. We really would like to encourage all
homebuilders to camp in their designated area. However, we are not out to
make any enemies here. We are planning to camp any overflow homebuilts if
they run out of space in the new homebuilt camper area.

I hate to do this to myself, but I would recommend that if there is anyone
out there who has a real need to camp in the Vintage area, they can contact
me directly, and IF APPROVED, we will need to coordinate a special arrival
with the parking crew in the Vintage area.

Cell: two six zero - four three seven - five five seven niner
e-mail: chief7025 you-know-what-symbol-goes-here aol.com

I know there are bound to be a small number of homebuilt folks who want to
camp next to their buddy/Relative in his/her Cessna 170. And I think we can
make that happen on an individual basis. Also, for your edification, we are
not planning on parking any homebuilts in the area west of Audry Lane in
behind the Hangar Cafe. (Just south of the Antique parking area).

Russ, I really want to thank you for assisting us on getting the "Official
Line" out to all participants.

Feel free to contact me again if someone asks the inevitable unthought of
question.

Geoff Robison

[Barb Nissly]

"Jim Gardiner" > wrote in message >...
> Reliability on this, is at best fair to unsubstantiated.....
>
> The rumor is as follows:
>
> Antique/classic/vintage/the guys south of the Communication Tower are not
> letting any homebuilts camp in their camping area due to the fact Homebuilts
> has a new camping area off the end of Papa 1.
>
>
> Fact: there is absolutely not enough room in the Homebuilt camping area to
> have all camping homebuilts in the new section.
>
> If anyone knows more (facts about this, not speculation or heresay) please
> respond.

xxx