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Where is your museum?

Posted by Tom on Wed Jun 25, 2003 05:52:16 PM

In reply top Wow! How did they organize all that? (ntx) posted by bdk on Wed Jun 25, 2003 11:10:59 AM

: : A group from the British Aviation Enthusiasts Society ca
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: : to our museum (Olympic Flight Museum) and airshow a few
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: : ays back. Various members have been to visit and fly wit
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: : us on three or four occasions since 2000.
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: : The first visit was purely by accident, they were on a t
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: : r of the west coast and heading to tour McChord AFB and
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: : they were driving up the highway, somebody remarked tha
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: : they had heard there was a museum at the airport. They
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: : lled up out front of the building just as I was walking
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: : t of the maintenance hanger and we just happened to meet
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: : n the parking lot. We weren't supposed to open for a fe
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: : more hours but I let them all in anyhow. After about tw
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: : ty minutes, I mentioned that it was possible to purchase
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: : ride in most of our planes. I have never seen people s
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: : excited in my life. I called the boss and couple of oth
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: : volunteers for help. We drug all the planes out and en
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: : d up doing about twenty rides that day.
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: : Every trip they make here gets a little more fun. This
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: : st trip was the best yet. The people seem to enjoy the v
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: : its and it's good for the museum. I really believe the
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: : seum staff and volunteers enjoy it more than anybody.
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: : From what I have seen, it looks like a good group for an
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: : ody from Europe to be associated with. I would be inter
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: : ted in hearing anyone elses views on the organization.
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: : They just put a report on their visit and posted a few p
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: : tures of our planes. I am told more will be posted soon
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: : Look for Olympia 2003 under the tour reports.

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