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One of the complaints from an attendee was that National was out of touch – speaking to Rod on tour. I have never met Tom
Rod frequently flew one of his or one of the Corp planes to events, commonly with relevant staff. Did Tom personally fly much as CEO? I don’t know .
I often wondered the same thing. In all the time I've spent around EAA chapters, I can't ever recall hearing of Tom doing much with the chapters and even back during the 1990s the local chapters I dealt with all had a very "detached" feeling. I can only recall crossing paths with Tom once and that was at one of the first AirVentures I attended. It was very brief and he didn't seem terribly friendly towards any of the folks around him. The friend I had with me at the time made a comment about him being "socially awkward" and a "fish out of water" as we walked away.