Plymouth, MA July 12th Wow, what a day! Ideal weather, for starters. There HAD to be over 2000 people; I heard an AOPA person say 1500 had RSVPd, but that they had served 2000 breakfasts. Not everyone had breakfast, and judging by the crowds, there were many more. We were in the perfect spots due to Rae and Pete getting up there on Thursday. Both planes attracted SO much interest that we were busy the ENTIRE DAY. Pete and we were all amazed at the number of serious Mooney shoppers, most of them already well informed about the marque but just needing to sit in the plane and ask some questions. Most of them were looking for J models, so we were just right. Most of them were also very tall, from 63 to 65. Both Rae and Pete are 63 so in spite of many of these guys having misconceptions about mooney room, they all were fine in the planes. Nonstop interest, all day. Some pilots already owning Mooneys stopped by, but they were greatly outnumbered by the ones with future Mooney aspirations. My friend Sue was there also, and the folks from CT. I think they brought in 7 lunch trucks and they pretty much were emptied. I believe they had to bring in more food. There were LOTs of volunteers to park planes, etc. they were great. The only negative comments I heard were about pilots not following the arrival procedure, and cutting others off in the pattern. One friend of ours from NJ tried to land 3 times and finally left. It was BUSY. We did have some people with kids stop by, but not as many as we thought. Rae will be sending you lots of pictures. We gave out buttons, lanyards, and stickers to many, but have some left to send on. A huge success, in our opinion! Candie Oldham and Rae Willis, point persons
Posted on: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 15:52:25 +0000
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