. . . SO WHAT DO I GET FOR MY MONEY ?

“What do I get for my money?”, asks the prospective CAF member. A business man’s question. An objective question that demands a quantitative answer full of facts and numbers. A question that should be asked anytime we give up money. But, what about money and airplanes - - - historic airplanes - - - World War II airplanes?

World War II aircraft are emotional things and everybody knows that logic and emotion, like oil and water, don’t mix very well. The better question might well be - - “what will my money do?”.

The simple answer is that your dues and contributions will help to preserve, in flying condition, the CAF’s wonderful and rare collection of combat aircraft. Your money will help to protect and display them as a tribute to America and to the men and women who built, serviced and flew them. There is more, of course, and when the propellers turn, the engines belch smoke and the thunder begins, they speak of what your money will do.

The “what do I get” part of the question depends on how much you want to participate in the operation, maintenance and preservation of the organization and it’s aircraft. It depends on how strongly you feel about these symbols of American Aviation Heritage - - it depends on how important you feel that future generations possess a part of history that can be touched, heard, smelled and seen. It is how important it is to you that we remind present and future generations of this Nation’s accomplishments in the defense of freedom.

“What do I get for my money?” - - - just maybe it will be something money can’t buy. Maybe you will just feel good about your country and maybe you will be helping others to feel good about your country - - - PRICELESS.
 

Submitted by Howard Martin