Simviation Forum - Meig's Field

Reply #60 - Jan 19^th, 2006 at 11:38pm

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I don't listen to news anyways. The news stations [all of them] are just becoming too close-minded. Nowadays, all they want to talk about is bad news.

Anyways, I hate the guy for what he did with Meigs. I mean, shutting down a well-known airport for no reason? Come on.

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Reply #61 - Jan 20^th, 2006 at 3:11am

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Anyways, I hate the guy for what he did with Meigs. I mean, shutting down a well-known airport for no reason? Come on.

.....Well said Kat..............THAT is enough to hate the guy, so don't let us get into politics too deep or the thread will be locked and it's been pretty interesting (IMO) so far.........commoner. Wink

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Reply #62 - Jan 20^th, 2006 at 8:57am

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Anyways, I hate the guy for what he did with Meigs. I mean, shutting down a well-known airport for no reason? Come on.

no he closed the airport for a very good reason... but he's still an idiot.

he closed it because he didn't want terrorists try and throw a cessna at the sears tower. let me tell you, i've been up top at sears tower, and the landing planes for O'Hare 9L, throw them a couple degrees off and they're in downtown.

it's not so much that, but he had to do it on my birthday...

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Reply #63 - Jan 22^nd, 2006 at 8:31am

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Sounds like abit of a thug.

I think megis should remain with a memorial somewhere on the site to explain what happend.

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Reply #64 - Jan 23^rd, 2006 at 11:39am

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The new park is called Meigs Park, but so what? Whoop do do!

The weak excuse about slinging Cessnas at Sears Tower is exactly that, weak. Anyone ho's been to the lakefront in the summer have been treated to a number of light aircraft towing banners. Any one of those light aircraft can veer toward any of the skycrapers, or even down into Soldier Field during a Bears game and nobody would be able to do a thing about it.

...surely, I bet just about everyone has buzzed the playing field in Soldier Field at least once. Or taken a low level river flight up the Chicago river...

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Reply #65 - Feb 14^th, 2006 at 4:12pm

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.......so, I heard reported on WLS today that Mayor Daley needs a heliport built south of Navy Pier: read - Meigs Field. But but but, didn't Daley say Meigs needed to be closed because of terrorist threat? But not to worry Chicagoans, the good mayor assures us that helicopters don't provide a terrorist threat. Somehow, someway, helicopters are incapable of crashing into the Sears Tower.

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Reply #66 - Feb 14^th, 2006 at 11:29pm

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Here's what I've heard:

The demolition was done illegally, literally under cover of darkness; the FAA was not even alerted so that a NOTAM could be issued, and he'd been planning this move, and trying to get support for it ,long before 2001.

To my eyes, it looks like a classic land grab, combined with a play for the Chicken Little voter bloc.
Unless they build a plane-proof dome over the whole thing, the city will never be any safer from aerial attack of any kind than it was when the airport was active, with locals in the air helping keep an eye out for anything odd.
The weak points (as proven on 9/11) were, and are still, the large airports serving the major carriers and large aircraft, not little Meigs Field, which must've been like a crown jewel for Chicago. It's a crime, and a shame.

http://64.143.36.15/html/history/Meigs_History.html#recent

Evoking "National Security" in these strange times seems to excuse just about anything.... Roll Eyes

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Reply #67 - Feb 15^th, 2006 at 11:23am

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I agree, closing Meigs is not going to stop someone who is twisted enough to ram a plane into a building...
But it would be cool if it was developed for model aircraft fliers or something. For little gas powered model planes for our non-virtual but non-literal fliers Grin