Jim Clark, Chairman National Biplane Fly In, www.nationalbiplaneflyin.com. Currently flying: 1929 Waco CSO, 1939 Waco EGC-8, 1946 Piper J-3, 1955 Piper PA22/20, 1956 Beech G35, 1984 Beech A36 & 2001 Vans RV9.
You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others.
- Ernest Hemingway
+2 but this will only be #29 for me. EAA does a great job with the portalets, plentiful and mostly kept clean.
Jeff Point
RV-6 and RLU-1 built & flying
Tech Counselor, Flight Advisor & President, EAA Chapter 18
Milwaukee, WI
"It All Started Here!"
+3, but it's only my #27th.....
Glenn Brasch
KRYN Tucson, Arizona
2013 RV-9A
Medevac helicopter pilot (Ret)
EAA member since 1980
Owner, "Airport Courtesy Cars" website.
www.airportcourtesycars.com
Volunteer Mentor www.SoAZTeenAviation.org
Bill, I'll admit I'm the "kid" on the block since this will only be #10 for me, but I don't know what you mean about no bathrooms around the vendor hangars. With the new (air conditioned!) bathrooms between the East and West hangars, I've never had to wait for a "hole" to use.
And now I'm really curious - Where's the Dairy Queen?!?
I went to the first (was it 1969?) and only missed one year since. Never had a problem finding a out house.
Carl, as for Dairy Queen, a slip of the mind, I actually mean the A& W stand.
Yes, there was a good indoor restroom last year in the east side of one of the vendor hangars, the south one. But there are 4 large vendor hangars and it is a long walk from the far south west one to this restroom, and that is if one knows where this one restroom is. As far as I can recall from last year, I walked all the way around the west vendor hangars and didn't find porta potties. Lot''s of locked potties for vendors and folks with golf carts, but not for the public. I am looking at the 2013 map right now, and I don't see these porta potties. The only ones I see listed or displayed on the map are the few actual restrooms. There used to be an air conditioned trailer with toilets at warbirds, but that was taken away.
I do see smoking areas marked on the map, but as a non smoker, like the majority of eaa public, I think the toilets are more important.