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

Oh, hell, yea! This is Chicago, remember? We've only got 3 million people,
but we get to vote as many times as we want to. Voted 19 times myself in the
last election (lots of cute babes at the polling places)!



"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:ZRkqd.477607$D%.397597@attbi_s51...
If something in Chicago is causing voter "dumbness", it's contagious.

At last report 59 million Americans were infected.

Wow, I knew the Daley Machine was powerful, but did he *really* get that
many votes?

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Wizard of Draws wrote:
On 11/26/04 11:13 PM, in article
, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:


When I worked for the Chicago Tribune, I (and many of my other
out-of-town co-workers) were under the distinct impression that
Chicagoans were the dumbest group of people we had ever met. The fact
that Daley is still in office is just another shred of evidence in
support of this assertion.

If something in Chicago is causing voter "dumbness", it's contagious.

At last report 59 million Americans were infected.

mike regish wrote:

I think your shots are excellent. I'm kind of wondering what you think could
have been better with respect to the film you used. Do you mean just the
formation shots or all of them. I would be thrilled with the results you
got.

The formation passed us very fast. We received no traffic alert
of any kind from the approach, or was it Meigs Tower already?

I had not time to change the lens and I shot nervously as good
I could, but they are blurred anyway.

I picked up the E200 for this shooting because this was a
brand new material back than, hailed by the press as the
"finest of ISO 200" so far. The weather was hazy, we moved
fast in the Bonanza and I opted for ISO 200 over a ISO 100
material to have more latitude toward shorter shutter times.
I ruled out ISO 400... because fo the obviously larger grain.

How wrong I was: The E200 proves to be enormously difficult
to scan with its grain aliasing effect on my scanner (Nikon
LS4000) and I really dislike the color balance of this material.
I wish I would have taken Provia 400F!

Later the E200 was criticized by many photographers for a
plethora of reasons, its beyond the scope here. Once more, the
introduction in the photo press was a simple marketing stunt...

Thomas


mike regish

"ThomasH" wrote in message
...

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

ThomasH wrote in message ...

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

Thanks Thomas for the great pictures.

I live only 40 miles to the west of Meigs and unfortunately only took
advantage of landing there a handful of times. At one time,
touch-n-goes there didn't cost anything.

However the real loss is that safety flying up the lakefront has been
severely compromised. I was able to use the Meigs tower to tell me
about all the other traffic that moved up and down the lakefront
trying to stay out of the way of ORD and MDW. Now, I prefer not to
even take that chance.

It too amazes me that Daley has done what he has down with no
impunity. You started your email by mentioning the fines proposed by
the FAA against the city. I hope that these are made a reality so
Daley can realize his actions have consequences.

Thanks again for bringing back good memories...

Having never landed at Meigs, might I ask what was so special about
this particular field?

Jose
--
Freedom. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

Having never landed at Meigs, might I ask what was so special about
this particular field?


Also having never landed there, I believe it has to do with the incredible view
of the Chicago Skyline, and the lakefront.


www.Rosspilot.com

Having never landed at Meigs, might I ask what was so special about
this particular field?


Also having never landed there, I believe it has to do with the incredible
view
of the Chicago Skyline, and the lakefront.

It was those things, and more.

The approach was absolutely gorgeous and unique, with an over-water approach
to landing not something most of us do every day. The skyline looming over
your shoulder was something to behold -- there's just something weirdly cool
about flying *lower* that people sitting in their offices!

And, finally, what made Meigs an icon was the fact that it was the start-up
airport on every version of Flight Simulator, going all the way back to the
Artisoft days. I know many pilots (myself included) whose very first
"flight" experience took place at Meigs Field.

In fact, when I finally landed there, it felt very, VERY familiar, having
"landed" there hundreds of times in cyberspace!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Robert Heise wrote:

ThomasH wrote in message ...

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

Thanks Thomas for the great pictures.

I live only 40 miles to the west of Meigs and unfortunately only took
advantage of landing there a handful of times. At one time,
touch-n-goes there didn't cost anything.

However the real loss is that safety flying up the lakefront has been
severely compromised. I was able to use the Meigs tower to tell me
about all the other traffic that moved up and down the lakefront
trying to stay out of the way of ORD and MDW. Now, I prefer not to
even take that chance.

I do understand that some airports die as the surroundings change.
For example San Francisco has had a waterfront airport: Thsi was the
Crissy Field in Presidio. Once upon a time, some people took off for
Hawaii from this field! Crissy Field was in several books of records!

http://www.nps.gov/prsf/history/crissy/crissyaf.htm

Once the Golden Gate bridge was build, landing and takeoff from
there became too hazardous. Last aircraft took off from this
airport in 1974!The runway was a part of a city for many years.
People used to walk and ride by bike from Marina to the Golden
Gate, the entire vicinity was kind of neglected. Way back SFO
sectional stopped indicate a closed airport there. Recent project
removed the runway completely and restored the bay land as a nature
preserve:

http://www.crissyfield.org/center/


Of course we have now the same safety dilemma which makes you
to avoid the lakefront flights: No safe place to go down. The
Bay is damn cold and usually very windy. The best bet around
Golden Gate is to head north toward Sausalito and Tiburon and
to ditch in the 1-2 foot shallow Richardson Bay. On the other
side of the city there is still the closed Alameda AFS with
good runways.



It too amazes me that Daley has done what he has down with no
impunity. You started your email by mentioning the fines proposed by
the FAA against the city. I hope that these are made a reality so
Daley can realize his actions have consequences.

Thanks again for bringing back good memories...

You are welcome, we brought back our memories as well!

Thomas

Jose wrote:
Having never landed at Meigs, might I ask what was so special about
this particular field?

Jose
--
Freedom. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

quoted me (asking what was special about Meigs)
and didn't write anything.

Or what was written didn't come through.

Say again?

Jose
--
Freedom. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.