Best SWAG at the Convention

[PaulDow]

Now that all the major concerns and suggestions have been resolved on other threads, I thought I'd start one more trivial.

What was the best SWAG (Stuff We All Get) you got at the convention?

I liked the LED flashlight from our good friends at Ford. I thought it just had a focusing ring on it, but when I got home I unscrewed it further to find that the ring pulls up to expose a frosted cylinder which makes it into a lantern.

The Young Eagles 25th anniversary glass from the volunteer dinner was also very nice.

[FlyingRon]

I passed on most of the swag. We got some hats (which I usually pass because I don't wear golf hats that much and they rarely fit me well anyhow). There were hats and posters at the wind down party but I passed on those as well.

Since this is the first time in years I didn't fly in, I didn't get the mug and plague from vintage.

[PaulDow]

I've got enough hats and t-shirts too. No one gives away pants. Cheap person that I am, I'm getting tired walking around dressed like Donald Duck.

[FlyingRon]

For years we got a coffee cup for volunteering. I've got a whole cabinet full. One of the volunteers suggested that they should rotate through plates and other parts of the placesetting. After a few years, you'd have collected a full set.

[mazdaP5]

I don't go much for swag. I've gotta get my Champion sticker though. Got four of em. Just in case.

[steve]

I got a couple of those fidget spinners from the folk at Levil Aviation after checking out their new, low-cost, simple-to-install, experimental only, ADS-B Out device named the Beacon.

[DaleB]

I didn't collect much in the way of swag this year. I have in the past... both at Oshkosh and numerous trade shows and conferences. What I found was that I ended up bringing home a whole lot of crap that just cluttered up my desk, bag, and car and never really proved to be of any use. Anyone want a retractable phone cord for their laptop modem (remember those)?? No? How about a bottle opener with a 4GB USB drive built in. I'm not kidding. Actually that one hangs out in the workshop, the bottle opener works fine. And I have half a dozen nice Cordura laptop bags with various logos on them. BEA, VMWare, IBM, etc.

Anyway... I've picked up some pens and a couple of good Ford knick-knacks in the past couple of years but I haven't seen any really must-have freebies at Airventure. The Spruce T-shirts were much better this year than last year. I grabbed another "REMOVE AFTER FLIGHT" keyring for my new co-owner. I do like the mug for registering in HBC, now I have a pair. Didn't see the flashlights at Ford... I just didn't want to invest the time on the annual snipe hunt, so I settled for a pen, a water bottle koozie and a little medallion thing that one of the grandkids will probably like.

[Floatsflyer]

Went to the COPA and international dinners on site. The only SWAG I care about getting is as many free waters and other drinks from exhibitors. Did well this year. Don't need more caps and t-shirts. Now I would gladly take a sweatshirt but no one seems to give these away.

[Cardinal729]

NORAD had pens with a touchscreen stylus on the pen tip. When you retracted the pen tip, it acted as a stylus for your iPad. I thought it ingenious.

[Cary]

A young couple wearing Jeppesen blue came by my tent in the North 40--I got a Jepp coozy, a scratch & sniff card that I turned in for a free 6 month subscription to Jepp charts on ForeFlight (arranged by an extraordinarily pretty young woman that was probably 45 or 50 years younger than me), and a really cute little fan that plugs into the power port of my iPhone or iPad--and actually works quite well without running down the battery.

Of course, I brought home a lot of trash that has already hit the round file--some years I've read it before leaving and dump it there, but this year I didn't get around to doing that, so I leafed through it at home and then dumped it.

All in all, though, the best SWAG is always the memories. I love coming to OSH each year, and I hope to be able to do it for quite some time to come.

Cary

[Auburntsts]

We scored ball caps, a solar panel equipped USB battery pack, and a microfiber polishing mitt at the Jeppesson pavilion. We both got nice Veterans ball caps with an EAA logo at the Veterans breakfast. Got a ton of coozies, lanyards, pens, and a couple of t-shirts from here and there.

[azmedic85355]

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The can koozies...


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[malexander]

I didn't pick up much of anything. A few pens, pencils, a couple tee shirts and some things for my daughter.
I did, however, win one of the GOPRO's Black edition, on Thursday

[gbrasch]

I don't go much for swag. I've gotta get my Champion sticker though. Got four of em. Just in case.

My "welcome kit" was missing the sticker, but was able to find some at my volunteer position. Have collected them for 30 years.