On Sep 29, 8:32 am, Jay Honeck wrote:
Is anyone heading over to the Columbus OH area for this event?
Rickenbacker Airport (KLCK) is closed to GA (per the FBO) so you have
to fly to KCMH or KLHQ.

Man, I'd give anything to be there. But it's Homecoming weekend here
at the University of Iowa, and we're packed full of revelers...

Strangely, I've heard very little about this event. For something
that's pulling in over 100 Mustangs, it's sure been beneath the
radar.
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay,

If it makes you feel any better, I attended yesterday with my family
and while it was an ok airshow, I was unimpressed overall. There were
a lot of Mustangs there, and there were a fair amount of USAF aircraft
on display. However, there were maybe 10 vintage warbirds other than
the Mustangs. Also, I had hoped for much larger formations of Mustangs
than we saw. There was one good formation of maybe 20 of them flying
in the shape of the numbers "51", but that was it. Logistics of the
show were not good, it took more than an hour both arriving and
leaving to get the 4-5 miles from the airport to the Interstate.
Highlights were the F-22 demo, the Thunderbirds, and the one large
formation of P-51s.

I guess Oshkosh makes you jaded, but there was nothing like the large
formations of warbirds you see every year at OSH, there wasn't a large
variety of aircraft, and the ground logistics were bad. Also, I was
disappointed that they didn't have any way for general aviation to fly
in & out.

The annual USAF show in Dayton is a better show in my view.

Obviously any day that you can see 100 Mustangs is a good one, but
there was a lot of untapped potential at this show.

Eric Bartsch
1959 Pilatus P-3 A-848
http://www.hometown.aol.com/bartscher/index.html