Go into Google Maps and type in Malvern Ohio.
Get into satellite mode...and just north of the town is a field running east and west.
Zoom in on a long tree lined driveway running to the east which ends in a house and a number of outbuildings.
The house sits just to the south of a east-west grass runway.
That is Furey field...the house is owned by John Furey, Austin Fruey's father.
The flight line, vender tents, build tents and camping are set up end-to-end just south of the grass runway.
It's an awesome event...nothing quite like it...
PS. In the latest Google Maps Satellite photo you can actually see the remnants of the muddy conditions of Flite Fest 2015
WOW!!!
You can see where the mud was from car and foot traffic.
You can even see where the two build tents were, and the places where the tables under those tents were set up, with the grass underneath relatively undisturbed.
Just to the left of the two build tents, you can see even more evidence of where the Flite Test Store Tent was. The broad path of mud was the main isle, and there were two full length lines of product tables to the right.
I think the original event in 2014 had a single downpour a little after sunset on Saturday night, where a fast moving line of thunder storms hit during the podcast recording. The wall of wind caused damage to camping tents.
But I don't think the grass took quite the beating...the ground never became saturated to the point of generating mud.
2015 was completely different with the soil completely drenched from days of steady rain.
Moving things back to the August date should make dry weather a more likely prospect.
At the point Flite Fest moves, we will need to take up a PayPal collection to have the land just to the south of the runway re-graded and re-seeded. That's the least we could do. With the large numbers of people who have taken advantage of Flite Fests over the years...$10 spread across 2000 or so attendees should get the job done. And for those YouTube subscribers, store customers, and forum members...$1-2bucks shouldn't be a big burden.
Get into satellite mode...and just north of the town is a field running east and west.
Zoom in on a long tree lined driveway running to the east which ends in a house and a number of outbuildings.
The house sits just to the south of a east-west grass runway.
That is Furey field...the house is owned by John Furey, Austin Fruey's father.
The flight line, vender tents, build tents and camping are set up end-to-end just south of the grass runway.
It's an awesome event...nothing quite like it...
PS. In the latest Google Maps Satellite photo you can actually see the remnants of the muddy conditions of Flite Fest 2015
WOW!!!
You can see where the mud was from car and foot traffic.
You can even see where the two build tents were, and the places where the tables under those tents were set up, with the grass underneath relatively undisturbed.
Just to the left of the two build tents, you can see even more evidence of where the Flite Test Store Tent was. The broad path of mud was the main isle, and there were two full length lines of product tables to the right.
I think the original event in 2014 had a single downpour a little after sunset on Saturday night, where a fast moving line of thunder storms hit during the podcast recording. The wall of wind caused damage to camping tents.
But I don't think the grass took quite the beating...the ground never became saturated to the point of generating mud.
2015 was completely different with the soil completely drenched from days of steady rain.
Moving things back to the August date should make dry weather a more likely prospect.
At the point Flite Fest moves, we will need to take up a PayPal collection to have the land just to the south of the runway re-graded and re-seeded. That's the least we could do. With the large numbers of people who have taken advantage of Flite Fests over the years...$10 spread across 2000 or so attendees should get the job done. And for those YouTube subscribers, store customers, and forum members...$1-2bucks shouldn't be a big burden.
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That's oply about 2 and a half hours from me. I had it in my head it was farther north, up by the lake. Cool.
