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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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"ThomasH" wrote in message
... SNIP 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 Thomas, Great, great, great pics!!! I'll never get to land there thanks to das "Wintycity Fuhrer" but I can do it vicariously through your photos. Thanks for putting them on line. Regards, Jay Beckman KCHD PP-ASEL Still nowhere to go but up! |
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On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 22:12:49 GMT, ThomasH wrote:
I hope you will like the images: http://www.pbase.com/thh/2000_07_24_cgx Those are really cool pictures!!!!!! Thanks for sharing. z |
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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. Thank you, Thomas, for sharing those bittersweet pix with us. I was lucky enough to fly into Meigs on three occasions. Each flight was memorable, and ingrained forever in my memories. The time we spent in Chicago was so enjoyable...I still catch myself daydreaming about those wonderful flights. We are poorer as a nation and as a people because of what Herr Daley did that night. I still can't believe he's walking around a free man. In any other city in America, a mayor sending bulldozers in at 3 AM to destroy the city's airport would have resulted in impeachment and possibly jail time. In Chicago, it's just "bidness as usual"... 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. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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Jay, I work for a small-town newspaper and that seems to be the attitude
of our reporters about our town. Trust me when I say they don't have any reason to feel superior. I was never a reporter -- I worked in the circulation department. (The newsroom was populated with some very interesting characters, but none of them would have known an honest day's work if it had punched them in the nose. But that's another post...) And although small-town folk can be ignorant, they are almost never stupid. They catch on quickly, and will only be suckered once. Big city people, on the other hand -- especially those who willingly spend up to 3 hours each day "commuting" -- are, almost without exception, exceptionally stupid. What we always found hilarious was that the locals would rail endlessly about the horrendous traffic, yet would never vote the tollways -- the main source of their traffic woes -- out of existence. In fact, most Chicagoans I met supported them, refusing to see that stopping 16 lanes of traffic every 15 miles to collect 40 cents was the root cause of their misery. We (those of us who sucked the big city money, but lived in lovely Wisconsin) always figured that the tollways were a pretty good IQ test, since any human of passing intelligence would never choose that lifestyle. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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Jay Honeck wrote:
[...] What we always found hilarious was that the locals would rail endlessly about the horrendous traffic, yet would never vote the tollways -- the main source of their traffic woes -- out of existence. In fact, most Chicagoans I met supported them, refusing to see that stopping 16 lanes of traffic every 15 miles to collect 40 cents was the root cause of their misery. They do this Florida as well. As I was at Sun'n'fun and drove from Lakeland to Cape Canaveral, I was stopped several times to pay a quarter or so... That's why we fly. Nothing enjoys me more than a look of an avalanche of white and red lights along an interstate, end on end, when I have my piece up there! Now serious: I believe that the issue here is different. Not being involved with Chicago, I found the city fascinating and people very nice. However, my friend with whom I landed at Meigs was born in Detroit and he shares the "anti chicagoan" sentiment here. They seem to be quite arrogant. The punch line that only pilots like airports. Most of the people in Chicago might believe that a new shoreline park is a cute idea, but this is deceiving. Just imagine how in gods name shall all the people be able to get there??? I see one giant car jam, maybe they will add one more toll booth... Thomas |
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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" |
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I hope you will like the images: Thomas, I did--very much. It's a sadness I feel because I never landed there. I landed at Dupage when I went thru Chicago in 1998. I am also incredulous that this travesty was allowed to go with so little result to the perpetrator. www.Rosspilot.com |
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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. 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 |
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