"Jay Honeck" wrote in
news:4Xy%j.185282$yE1.138744@attbi_s21:

I bring this up because a lot of people feel that EAA has become too
commercial and has forgotten their constituency.

EAA is a big business with a shrinking constituency. Look at the
"Gone West" column each month, and all the empty airports, and it's
easy to see what they're up against.

If expanding the Airventure grounds so that it may be better used for
other events helps to preserve our annual fly-in, I'm all for it. I
wish it were otherwise, but there just ain't enough new pilots in the
pipeline to support EAA. As a result, their choices are rather stark.

There were only two at the beginning, idiot.



Bertie