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Guy Prevost 09-22-2018 08:21 AM

As this crazy idea grows, I've had to revisit my original intent. How do I get enough pilots together to foot the bill for a Spaceport Visit?

The Trinity site tour is October 5. That's opening day of the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta too. My goal was to use those events to generate enough traffic to arrange a Spaceport visit. Spaceport is what a few people keep asking me about but nobody else is really interested. Basically I told a few people I would try and find a way to get them into Spaceport and I'm trying to honor that commitment. Leveraging the other events is a way to make that financially doable, but it does appear to conflict with Petit Jean.

Another obstacle is that the Balloon Fiesta draws about 900,000 people annually. It's an event the size of Oshkosh. That makes cars and hotels expensive. I may have to find another time, or scrub the idea. Again, I don't really want to host LOE--I want to honor a commitment to get people onto the NM Spaceport runway. Hosting LOE, with enough interesting side events that I don't have to entertain everyone is a method to accomplish that.

I'll keep examining the trade space.

FlyFastJP 09-22-2018 08:32 AM

For me at least, the spaceport visit is the one I would rather do....MUCH rather. The Trinity site is cool, but to be honest, I don't think I'd make a trip just for that.

Spaceport all the way for me!!

Guy Prevost 11-27-2018 11:38 AM

There is now a Fly-in planned for April 7, 2019, so I'm abandoning the idea of creating my own version. It's too costly in terms of dollars and time.

FMI: https://lcspacefestival.com/

I'll post registration dates and info here as I collect it. I have reached out to them to firm up the registration dates.

DakotaHawk 11-27-2018 08:34 PM

I'm in with a +1 for 2019. This looks like a great adventure!

crabandy 11-27-2018 08:59 PM

I’m still in +/kiddo!

Guy, understand the astronomical cost and time. Thanks for finding another way to make it work!

airguy 11-28-2018 08:01 AM

I'm in with +1.

rdrcrmatt 11-28-2018 08:43 AM

We would love to show up, 1 plane, me, wife and kiddo. But April wouldn't work for us. Oct certainly would.

Keep us updated!

Happy to pay registration fees in advance too.

Vlad 02-16-2019 04:58 PM

Fly in registration closed
 
The capacity has been reached. Only 40 airplanes were admitted. Any RVators managed to register? I missed the opportunity :o

plehrke 02-17-2019 06:04 AM

Wow, only 40 allowed. I was thinking of flying in to see all the emerging space tourism business. Must be so ramp space crunched with all the surrounding houses and businesses crowing out the space port. I guess NM is not as big as I thought.

Guy Prevost 02-17-2019 08:58 AM

I missed it too, despite emailing them repeatedly for information about when sign up would be available. They have a huge ramp. Ridiculous.


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