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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">Matt, we are in Wichita, that should be even closer to you. What type of sim do you have?</DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">The museum Director gave us a go, so cockpitfest USA 2012 is going to happen. (Side note, He is still jazzed about the great turnout for the B-52 50th Anniversary event I had a week ago) </DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">It will be September 29th-30th during the McConnell AFB airshow so we will have the Thunderbirds flying overhead :) There will also be a good public spectator turnout at the museum due to the airshow. We are going to check into a cockpit grand prize winner of 1 hour flight time at Flightsafety Wichita. </DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">Here is the website for the airshow <A href="http://www.mcconnell.af.mil/library/2012openhouse/index.asp">http://www.mcconnell.af.mil/library/2012openhouse/index.asp</A><VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">Justin</DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">>[Cipher in a.s.r]Well I for one am definitely interested! I'm in central Oklahoma, so I could be in >Kansas City in a day. Gene has a point, of course: here in the US, everything is spread out over >literally thousands of miles. :/<BR><BR>>One option would be to get a handful of people around the US to host "regional" cockpit meet-ups. The >only concern there is that our hobby is so relatively small and niche, I'm not sure you'd be able to >get a significant amount of people together on a regional level. Still, you wouldn't do bad to start >with a Kansas City meet and go from there.<BR><BR>>At any rate, my sim is not nearly complete, but it is almost "flyable" again, and I deliberately made >it portable enough to throw in the back of a large'ish pick-up or small flatbed trailer. I would love >to haul it down for a meet-up.
:)<BR><BR>>Matt<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Simpits-tech mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Simpits-tech@simpits.org" ymailto="mailto:Simpits-tech@simpits.org">Simpits-tech@simpits.org</A><BR><A href="http://www.simpits.org/mailman/listinfo/simpits-tech" target=_blank>http://www.simpits.org/mailman/listinfo/simpits-tech</A><BR><BR><BR></DIV></div></body></html>