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Ten Years Ago.... the story of Meigs Field
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| March 30, 2013
| Marilyn Dash
Posted on 03/30/2013 6:53:28 PM PDT by EveningStar
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The closure of local towers and airports may seem like a recent event, but sadly it's been going on for a while.
Meigs Field
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posted on
03/30/2013 6:54:41 PM PDT
by
EveningStar
("What color is the sky in your world?" -- Frasier Crane)
To: EveningStar
That was my favorite airport to fly in and out of
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posted on
03/30/2013 6:59:03 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom)
To: al baby
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posted on
03/30/2013 6:59:22 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom)
To: EveningStar
Appalling. It is the Chicago way.
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posted on
03/30/2013 6:59:26 PM PDT
by
beef
(Who Killed Kennewick Man?)
To: beef
It's bigger than Chicago. Much bigger. The local airport where my late father flew his plane out of is also closing.
BTW, Chicago is one of the world's great cities. If you haven't been there, you're missing a wonderful experience.
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posted on
03/30/2013 7:07:33 PM PDT
by
EveningStar
("What color is the sky in your world?" -- Frasier Crane)
To: EveningStar
It was the startup location for several versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator.
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posted on
03/30/2013 7:09:21 PM PDT
by
Spirochete
(Sic transit gloria mundi)
To: EveningStar
What a thuggish abuse of power. He never even explained why. At the news conference he stated yelling that maybe he wanted to build a hotdog stand.
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posted on
03/30/2013 7:09:42 PM PDT
by
Blackirish
(Forward Comrades!!!!!!!!!)
To: Blackirish
He can build his hotdog stand in hell soon,right next to the Ted Kennedy grease fire.
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posted on
03/30/2013 7:11:59 PM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: EveningStar
Back in the day I flew in and out of Meigs Field many times. Best part of a trip to Chicago... the airport was right downtown. Very convenient.
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posted on
03/30/2013 7:14:31 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(Free Republic: faster than a speeding bullet!)
To: al baby
Same. Simulator only for that airstrip but was one of my favs as well.
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posted on
03/30/2013 7:15:13 PM PDT
by
Domandred
(Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system.)
To: al baby
I kept crashing my plane.
To: EveningStar
I used to fly a King Air 200 in and out of there 3 days a week during the 1990's.
It was a damn waste of a good field for one thing........Dailey's wife hated the aircraft disturbing the yacht club.
I'm still pissed over it.
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posted on
03/30/2013 7:20:04 PM PDT
by
Kakaze
(I want The Republic back !)
To: al baby; beef; Spirochete; Blackirish; Farmer Dean; upchuck; Domandred; fieldmarshaldj; Kakaze
Whenever we lose part of out culture, it wounds us. All we have left is our memories, and sometimes that is just not enough.
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posted on
03/30/2013 7:22:19 PM PDT
by
EveningStar
("What color is the sky in your world?" -- Frasier Crane)
To: al baby; beef; Spirochete; Blackirish; Farmer Dean; upchuck; Domandred; fieldmarshaldj; Kakaze
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posted on
03/30/2013 7:23:57 PM PDT
by
EveningStar
("What color is the sky in your world?" -- Frasier Crane)
To: Kakaze
Somebody should wait for him to go on vacation and bulldoze X’s in his driveway. I bet his neighbors wouldn’t stop you.
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posted on
03/30/2013 7:29:39 PM PDT
by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: EveningStar
My wife and friends used to go down to Chicago around Thanksgiving on a bus from Wisconsin to shop Michigan Ave. This ended when the sales Tax was raised to 10%
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posted on
03/30/2013 7:34:31 PM PDT
by
UB355
(Slower traffic keep right)
To: al baby
I used to fly a Cessna 441 into there, as I recall there were a handful of planes that were parked there that morning. It took several months for them to be taken apart and trucked away.
Chicago is an evil place.
To: Kakaze
"Dailey's wife hated the aircraft disturbing the yacht club."
How about people that might have been flying into Chicago that morning only to find the runways destroyed? People could have been killed that day. The only good thing is that Dailey's wife died a horrible death from Cancer last year. I know thats mean, but I don't give a flying "F". Karma.
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posted on
03/30/2013 7:38:40 PM PDT
by
Lockbar
(Quality Factory Loaded Ammunition ------- The New Gold)
To: EveningStar
Fairfax County VA had a dozen or more major airfields during WWII. The aircapacity for D-Day was actually checked out and loaded up for the most part right here ~ near where I live. There was flat ground and they used it as a D-mark for the greatest land/sea invasion in human history.
Now we only have the 'remains' ~ a few records ~ not even historic markers ~ and a newer field at Fort Belvoir. Fortunately there's an historic society that's busy with the task of identifying all of them and make these things known.
Note, not all Alexandria addresses are in Alexandria. A large part of Southern Fairfax uses Alexandria post office.
There's a good selection of these incredibly important airfields at: http://members.tripod.com/airfields_freeman/VA/Airfields_VA_Fairfax_SE.html
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posted on
03/30/2013 7:54:23 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
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