In what could be the last industry airshow and expo of the 2020 season that wasn’t, the Midwest LSA Expo will take place as planned starting Sept. 10 and running through Sept. 12. According to the group, the Expo “specifically organized the unique event to sell Light Sport Aircraft, LSA Ancillary Services, and LSA related Services.” The event takes place at the Mt. Vernon, Illinois, airport (KMVN). The DeLand Sport Aviation Showcase was recently moved to early next year.
“We feel the Midwest LSA Expo is the most convenient and affordable of its type in the country,” says the organizer. “The host City and Airport are located at the crossroads of two major interstates and are 1 hour, 15 minutes by ground from Lambert St. Louis International Airport. Over 1200 hotel rooms and 60 restaurants are within three miles of the event site. Over 50% of the entire U.S. population is within an 8 hour drive from Mt. Vernon!” Admittance is free, as is parking for ground vehicles and aircraft. A claimed 35 vendors will be exhibiting.
There are several airshows scheduled after this? Maybe not industry expo’s but airshows.
https://www.wingsovernorthgeorgia.com/ is doing a drive up airshow October 24-45 so you can “social distance” in your car and watch the airshow.
October 24-25 that is.
Oh, no…what about the panic about Covid-19 and vaccines? If you can go to Lowe’s or a Home Depot, you can go anywhere…
Just spent an hour with Michelle Hoffman, PhD of P33, who did a Zoom presentation on Covid. She consults to the city of Chicago and other health entities. Bravado and reduced vigilance out of familiarity with the new “normal” do not reduce the severity of this disease, which by the way is capable of crossing the blood brain barrier and effect brain cells. The difficulty with this disease is that even people who are not ‘asymptomatic’ do not know they are infected for the first several days because in the normal course of infection there is an absence of symptoms. So it is best to assume that everyone walking around is a carrier.
The aviation community is not representative of the general population, much as motorcycle riders are not. This cohort of individuals assesses risk differently. Nonetheless, the same odds of infection apply to those who disregard the risks or diminish them.