Our Landing in Meigs Field, four year ago...

We saw recently in AOPA news that FAA filed at last some punitive
fines against the City of Chicago for the so unorthodox method of
damaging and closing the airport. This jared our memories, mine
and of my friend, with whom we once traveled across the continent
from California to Oshkosh.

A landing in Meigs was on our schedule. We both are glad that
we stopped there! Incoming shaky weather from the north forced
us to depart from Chicago directly the next day, and so we left
the sunny city and flew into marginal VFR around the arrival
point at OSH. While flying IFR through the wet flatlands, barely
visible through the mist and fog, we were both reminiscing the
skyline, colors, downtown and surroundings of the Windy City.

Once we landed safely at OSH, the usual fascination with this
magnificent show kicked in and we forgot about about CGX...

Later on however, this landing became clearly the most vividly
remembered event from our trip! We both remember the planing
how to cruise through Chicago's class B and how to fly to see
the most of the shoreline on our final leg toward CGX...

And who on final approach encounters 4 aircraft flying in
formation just below you! I just wish the images were of better
technical standard! Kodak's Ektachrome E200 Professional proven
to be such a disappointment to me.

There is, or rather: There was only only Meigs, probably the
most unique airport in the US, if not in the entire world!!

I hope you will like the images:

http://www.pbase.com/thh/2000_07_24_cgx

Thomas