Mark Jones wrote: > Do you have any photos of the EAA visit on your web site yet? Are you the > only KR builder in your chapter? How do they view the KR overall?
No, I didn't take any. Only eight guys showed up. I don't feel too bad though because that's about how many that showed up last month for a guy who'd just finished and painted his RV-7 (Ed Siegler). In our chapter, it seems that actually building and flying airplanes isn't exactly at the top of the list. Most meetings are held at the Moontown FBO and maybe thirty folks show up. For the last few years, the emphasis has been on the monthly third Saturday breakfast. People fly in from all around. I think they've been serving around 150 people lately. The real builders don't go to the meetings because they'd rather spend the time building and getting something accomplished. Moontown (http://www.airnav.com/airport/3M5) is the hotbed of homebuilding around here (well, RV building, with 6 under construction) as well as sport, glider, and ultralight flying. The EAA doesn't seem to play much part in it though. Maybe after mine is finished I'll spend a little more time hanging around the airport, but my guess is that I'll be too busy building something else instead... Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL N56ML at hiwaay.net see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
