What is interested to consider is that if that 20 percent who left all
voted en bloc, they could put whomever they wanted on the board. The
current regime survives on proxies, as 400,000 people do not attend the
annual meeting.

Jim Weir of California (RST kit radios/intercoms) tried a few years
back, got maybe a few dozen/hundred votes...

Maybe a proxy war is just what needs to happen to shake things up.

Dave

Dave,

 With the EAA eager to drop the "experimental" from their name I'm not supprised that they are loosing membership. They seem to have forgotten what the core of the membership is. there can only be so many guys with perfect P-51 restorations. (And the money to do them) Most of us are scratching to build our kits. I always have a bitter laugh when some new "economical" Lyc is posted at 30K in Sport Aviation, or in one of the EAA e-mails. Damm it that is just beyond the reach of many (maybe most?) people. The new glass cockpit wars are bringing the panel prices down, if we could only do that with the mechanicals.

 Getting enough of the disgruntled members together for aproxy fight would be like hearding cats, but worthwhile none the less. I am a former EAA Chapter VP BTW, and I hate the "aim low" attitude shown lately as well. 

Bill Jepson