Lovin' the DC-3

I wrote a post a while back about the alphabet groups I do and don't want to belong to. I never did get around to joining the EAA. You can't join them all. It's too much dues. So I pay up every year for the AOPA. I've been in EAA in the past, but I'm not an aircraft builder and I never did like the EAA for reasons I don't even remember. But now there has been a flap between EAA and the DC-3 people who are having the big "Fly over" with 75 DC-3's. EAA has taken the stance that Oshkosh is theirs, and they will run the DC-3 deal. Now I kinda remember what I didn't like about EAA. Every year at Lakeland I would ask about the relationship between EAA and the "Sun N Fun" organization. Every year I was told that EAA runs sun n fun and that EAA has nothing to do with sun n fun. In the same sentence. Every year. If I were a DC-3 owner and was all set to meet up this summer with 74 other DC-3's in Illinois for some formation flying, I'd be pretty excited and happy. What a great summer endeavor. A record setting civilian aluminum overcast. History making. If I were in that wonderful group of guys I would right now be saying: F--- the EAA! F--- Oshkosh! I just wouldn't be able to say it fast enough. GAI ::::+::::