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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Aug 16, 2013
Description:
Chicago skyline marred by the ruined Meigs Field airport. Former Mayor Richard Daly bulldozed it at 1 am in 2003.
Date Taken:
Aug 16, 2013
Place Taken:
Enroute to Oshkosh
Owner:
Bruce McGregor
File Name:
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Category:
532, Oshkosh 2013
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Bruce McGregor - Aug 16,2013
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My wife Suzanne in her Cessna 172 and I in my SeaRey LSX had an adventure flying from Florida to Oshkosh. See the attached article I wrote for my residential airpark's newsletter. The SeaRey owner mentioned was Tom Brooks.<P>We visited PA's small outdoor site at Oshkosh, which had the LSA model on static display. It did not attract many visitors during the 20 minutes or so that we were there. Adam Wang chatted with us for part of that time and reported that PA had sixteen orders in hand for it.<P>ICON occupied a large tent filled with flashy exhibits, showy videos and exotic music. The place was crowded. The display model was unpainted with drawings superimposed on its black carbon fiber. One wing was folded to reveal the mechanism. I had one overall impression: HEAVY!<P><a href="/isapi.dll?c=content&f=link&contentclass=FILE&threadid=B4elKE&fiberid=3">Oshkosh Odessey</a><!-- >'"><br><font color=red size=6>' or > missing in user HTML. Please fix the HTML.</font> -->
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Don Maxwell - Aug 16,2013
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Looks like you had a good SeaRey Adventure, Bruce, with a little excitement but nothing bad happening.<br /><br />A SeaRey can carry enough for two persons to camp at the SPB at Oshkosh--although you do have to pack thoughtfully. That solves the accommodation problem neatly.
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Frank A. Carr - Aug 17,2013
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Bruce,Enjoyed your Odyssey write up vey much, well done. Like you I fret about many of the things you mentioned. But I missed the part of not being able to sleepwhile your SeaRey was moored out on the lagoon overnight..<!-- >'"><br><font color=red size=6>' or > missing in user HTML. Please fix the HTML.</font> -->
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Jeff Arnold - Aug 16,2013
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Bruce, here is a picture I took of Meigs Field on October 12, 2002 flying Oliver 2 from her former home in WI.
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Meigs Field October 2002
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Dan Nickens - Aug 16,2013
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It was fun reading about your cross-country flight, Bruce, until I came to the ending. After all that adventure and fun you wouldn't do it again? Seriously?
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Bruce McGregor - Aug 17,2013
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My concluding comment was specific to Oshkosh. Other SeaRey adventures are calling to me.<!-- >'"><br><font color=red size=6>' or > missing in user HTML. Please fix the HTML.</font> -->
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Jim Dellaria - Aug 16,2013
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Congratulations Bruce, sounds like a neat adventure!
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Lee Pfingston - Aug 16,2013
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Learned to fly at Midway, lived in Chicago area for more than 65 years, cannot count the landings I have at Meigs. Loved the first, last, and every one in between! Richard the second hated everything aviation, petitioned the feds to allow no GA over Chicago. When he demolished the runway, middle of the night He shone floodlights into all cameras. He orphaned maybe 20 aircraft there, Many were disassembled and trucked out. I flew one belonging to a more timid friend of mine off the taxiway at 3:00 Am.3:00 AM..........thief in the night, seemed appropriate.
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Wayne Nagy - Aug 17,2013
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What a sad state of affairs....never expect something like in the US>>>>>>>
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Lee Pfingston - Aug 17,2013
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Without a doubt, Half the flights from Meigs were Politicians and shoeboxes full of money Chicago/Springfield (capital) But Most of the balance was medical and organs to the many hospitals and university of Chicago and Loyola. Seldom landed there that Tarmac not crowded with ambulances and Med personel
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Kenneth Leonard - Aug 18,2013
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It was a disgraceful example of both Chicago political corruption and frankly, the failure of the Federal Government to show the courage to forcefully stop it. The President should have immediately put the airport back to fully operational status and the cost should have been deducted from Federal funding to Chicago, all the costs associated to the owners of planes and business should have been born by Chicago and he should have flown there in Marine One to publicly denounce Daily. If anything criminal could have been brought, Daily should have been prosecuted. This was a cult of personality.
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