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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 |
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