Airports and Bulldozers
10-29-2011, 08:59 PM
#1
Gets Weekends Off
Thread Starter
Joined APC: Aug 2011
Posts: 204
Airports and Bulldozers
I like running. Today I went for a run on the empty field of rubble that was once my airport. It's where I soloed for the first time, where I made my first night landing, and where I spent a lot of my teenage years riding my Huffy around looking for girls to invite me into their tents at the Summer fly ins. Now it's a parking lot for excavating equipment and a soon to be strip mall filled with restaurants, coffee shops, hotels and a movie theater. Oh well...
10-30-2011, 04:07 AM
#3
Moderator
Joined APC: May 2006
Position: ATP, CFI etc.
Posts: 6,056
10-30-2011, 01:30 PM
#5
Moderator
Joined APC: May 2006
Position: ATP, CFI etc.
Posts: 6,056
I didn't realize he was talking about Chicago's Meigs Field. The unilateral destruction of the field by Mayor Daley is a sore spot for American General Aviation. He was on solid enough legal grounds closing the airport since the land is on is owned by the City of Chicago, but he did not bother with a referendum to see what the real owners of Meigs, the taxpayers of Chicago, desired. I doubt they desired it to be closed. This is a case of "might makes right" but it resulted in the penalty for improper airport closure being increased ten fold by the FAA. Maybe one day it can be reopened.
Wiki on Meigs
Wiki on Meigs
10-30-2011, 02:41 PM
#6
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Oct 2011
Position: King of somewhere hot....
Posts: 151
I didn't realize he was talking about Chicago's Meigs Field. The unilateral destruction of the field by Mayor Daley is a sore spot for American General Aviation. He was on solid enough legal grounds closing the airport since the land is on is owned by the City of Chicago, but he did not bother with a referendum to see what the real owners of Meigs, the taxpayers of Chicago, desired. I doubt they desired it to be closed. This is a case of "might makes right" but it resulted in the penalty for improper airport closure being increased ten fold by the FAA. Maybe one day it can be reopened.
Wiki on Meigs
Wiki on Meigs
