On Fri, 06 May 2005 13:31:50 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
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(What will Larry do?) :-))

I'd say an event like this -- sponsored by EAA, no less! -- will put poor
Larry into some sort of vegetative state...

Like I said before, my objection was to Mr. Honeck's worldwide
announcement implying that pilots en route to EAA Airventure stop in
for an intoxicating beverage:

From: "Jay Honeck"
Newsgroups: rec.aviation.piloting
Subject: Oshkosh Bound? Free Beer in Iowa!
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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 14:13:08 GMT

Yes, for those pilots who are hot, tired, thirsty, and en route to
Oshkosh on Sunday, July 27th, Mary and I are holding our First
Annual Fly-In Pool Party at the ...


I wasn't the first reader to question Mr. Honeck's ill conceived
marketing ploy:

From: "Guy Elden Jr."
Newsgroups: rec.aviation.piloting
References: UTyQa.59032$Ph3.6151@sccrnsc04
Subject: Oshkosh Bound? Free Beer in Iowa!
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 14:28:23 -0400
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Pathfinder), you'll arrived more refreshed -- and, besides,
where the heck ELSE are you gonna get free beer en route to the
Big Show, anyway?

Is there a free sober-up room to go along with the free beer? :-)

--
Guy Elden Jr.


Publicly suggesting in a worldwide forum that pilots stop en route for
a beer seems to add fuel the news media's penchant for
sensationalizing each incident of such pilot violations. Is that the
image airman want to project worldwide? The choice is ours.