Fathers Day weekend was to give Fathers the chance to say why not go here….nice idea I think.
I personally don’t believe a conscious decision to hold CockpitFest on Father’s Day was ever made for that reason. It’s just turned out that way, on the majority of occasions, because that was the weekend that best fitted the museum’s schedule. That’s the gist of what Bill told me anyway and, as Stuart has said, I don’t think he has a lot of say in those decisions.
I also don’t believe the “it’s Father’s Day, let’s take Dad to CockpitFest” thing is any attraction. In 2004 it was held on a different weekend and it was one, if not the best ‘Fest of all, both in terms of attending displays and visitors.
I am desperate for the CockpitFest event to continue and develop, but it’s only as good as the cockpits attending and there’s only a limited number of potential attendees. Because of that any possible, proven obstacle to the attendance of displays should be addressed. As I said, I know for certain that there was at least one excellent cockpit display missing last year purely because it was Father’s Day weekend. 682al’s comments in another thread about having to place his control column display in another area away from his aerojumble stall also needs to be addressed. Having to choose between the two, because of the difficulty in supervising two locations, he has decided to go with the stall rather than the display and I fully understand that. It does mean that the inflexibility of the position at the museum has denied us an excellent exhibit however, which is a great shame.
Maybe we’ll have to agree to disagree on this, but I certainly think it’s food for thought.
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