Sadly you seem to not appreciate the co-ordination effort that goes in behind the scenes, to keep in touch with people; send out invites; keep other supporters on board etc. etc. – if only it were a case of announce the date and everyone turn up, have a great time and come back the following year!
Keep the faith Justin and your event will go from strength to strength; organisations seldom get everything right all of the time – but as you’ll sense from the positive feedback most of the cockpiteers feel that it’s something worthwhile supporting! 🙂
Agreed. Ive had to explain to some people who are not cockpiteers just how much affort, time, and money it takes to get a cockpit to C-F. Its a huge undertaking! Even more so when trying to make a cockpit that is not a finished restoration into a presentable cockpit. We had two cockpits being painted and touched up at the museum the morning the event started.
One of our cockpits did not arrive because the exhibitor’s son broke his jaw in football practice the day before he was to bring the cockpit. Talk about a let down after all that prep work to bring it. Life happens.
On the staff side the same was true. The weeks before C-F I had no other life when not at my day job. Even though I live locally I had to take a few days off from work to handle Cockpit-Fest. The amount of details and coordination involved was intense but it was a lot of fun. Preparing and configuring the museum facilities also took a lot of effort. However, after the cockpits were gone my visiting nephew was thrilled to help me move the museum planes back into place with the tug!
Justin
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