Am I the only one who noticed and thinks the "AirVenture 2012 Bucket List" promotion is in horribly poor taste?
(If you are unfamiliar, see it here: http://www.airventure.org/bucketlist/)
A "bucket list" is a list of things you want to do before you kick the bucket - that is, before you die. Every year people die on the way to, home from, and at AirVenture.
Several years ago while I was on staff for EAA, I was on a Gator and picked up an old man to give him a ride to the museum to catch a movie in the Vette and get a drink of water. The old man told me the story of how that would be his last AirVenture, as he was terminally ill. He and his son came to Oshkosh every year for, I don't recall - a very long time, but his son couldn't make it this time because he had just had a child. The old man came up to Oshkosh by himself and for the last time. Clearly, that AirVenture was on his "bucket list".
I just don't think it was a good decision to promote the event using that term.
$0.02, keep the change.