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Dare County Airport Museum video

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I have made reference to "my" museum at times here -- I'm the Curator of the Dare County Regional Airport Museum and have been for since 2006. I like to tell visitors, particularly locals, that I am saving the county money as my predecessor got a $1/year but I declined that. I am primarily a one-man band, more in the care-taking mode, than doing significant new work, but that will change in 2018.

County PR has just done a new promo video, available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4ZWDTp-9qZo; that I thought I would share.

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Fascinating. I'd never heard of the Civil Air Patrol before.

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That's really good, John... nice to see and hear you talk after all this time! It's a very interesting tale, and the museum looks like it does a great job of bringing together a good selection of real artifacts to tell it. A couple of questions, if I may? Was the autogyro company local, or was it just that it employed your local barnstormer guy? I think I'd like to hear more about it. And were there any female pilots in the CAP? It sounds like something that could have been open to them, like the ATA in the UK, and I thought I maybe saw some ladies among the pictures. Just thinking that if so, it might be worth mentioning them somewhere in there...

Great stuff, and complements on your stewardship of this splendid local asset.

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Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
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That's a great video John and thanks for sharing - It's great to put a face and a voice to the name.

I truly love these little local museums and your's looks great. I found the CAP aspect really interesting, I didn't know about their involvement in WWII - very brave men (and I assume women?) indeed.

Great stuff, thanks for sharing!

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This is really cool John.
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Thanks, guys.

David: Being a Florida guy, you had CAP Coastal Patrol Bases at Lantana, Flagler Beach, Miami, Sarasota, and Panama City. You might find Louis Keefer's book From Maine to Mexico interesting.

Matt: No, these were Kellett autogiros, manufactured up around Philadelphia. Kellett grew from licensed Pitcairn/Ciera to doing their own design and production but didn't survive the helicopter.

Matt & Stuart: Females were allowed as pilots in the CAP but not at Coastal Patrol Bases because that was effectively considered combat -- we did have female ground staff. These were all civilian volunteers and a few of them were married couples.
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Hi jRatz,just watched the clip,very interesting hobby you have got.Well tidy mun.
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Fascinating stuff, pity it's so far from me because I really want to have a look around!!. It's also good that someone can talk for nearly ten minutes and not be at all boring!! (this was meant as a compliment as you made such a good job of the talking that it was easy to listen to even when ogling all of the artefacts and display's).

Thanks for putting this on.

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That is a really well put together video John, and so well narrated. Like Marky, if it were not so far away, I'd love to visit as it is exactly the kind of place I like, clearly instigated and maintained by people who care.

And it also must be said that you must have the prettiest airport building ever!
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Now that is what I call interesting and the museum would be a great place to spend some time. Pity there's rather a large body of water between it and me or I'd be there on Sunday! Thanks for sharing, John - you make a good presenter!
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MarkyM607 wrote:Fascinating stuff, pity it's so far from me because I really want to have a look around!!. It's also good that someone can talk for nearly ten minutes and not be at all boring!! (this was meant as a compliment as you made such a good job of the talking that it was easy to listen to even when ogling all of the artefacts and display's).

Thanks for putting this on.

And why aren't you green?. :lol: :lol: :ha:
The Video guy spent half a day photographing/videoing everything. Then he sat me in a chair and started asking leading questions with the camera running - that took a couple hours. I was not allowed to wander around and wave my hands as I like to do.

He then went back and figured out how to reduce/rearrange all that to 9 mostly coherent minutes, which was the max they wanted. We agreed on a couple swaps of talk and pix to catch some points I thought important and that was it.

The real credit goes to him for sorting through it all to come up with that presentation.

But yes, if you come over, I can go on as long as you have :) And if anyone plans to, please let me know so I can make every effort to be available.
MarkyM607 wrote:And why aren't you green?. :lol: :lol: :ha:
It's the lighting :)
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jRatz wrote:
MarkyM607 wrote:Fascinating stuff, pity it's so far from me because I really want to have a look around!!. It's also good that someone can talk for nearly ten minutes and not be at all boring!! (this was meant as a compliment as you made such a good job of the talking that it was easy to listen to even when ogling all of the artefacts and display's).

Thanks for putting this on.

And why aren't you green?. :lol: :lol: :ha:
The Video guy spent half a day photographing/videoing everything. Then he sat me in a chair and started asking leading questions with the camera running - that took a couple hours. I was not allowed to wander around and wave my hands as I like to do.

He then went back and figured out how to reduce/rearrange all that to 9 mostly coherent minutes, which was the max they wanted. We agreed on a couple swaps of talk and pix to catch some points I thought important and that was it.

The real credit goes to him for sorting through it all to come up with that presentation.

But yes, if you come over, I can go on as long as you have :) And if anyone plans to, please let me know so I can make every effort to be available.
MarkyM607 wrote:And why aren't you green?. :lol: :lol: :ha:
It's the lighting :)
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Very interesting looking museum. Nice casual feel to the video as well.

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I seem to remember that Airfix's original Harvard release carried CAP markings (or maybe I've developed aa false memory from childhood).
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