Mooney Ovation takeoff at Chicago Meigs airport

[peanuts2105]

Great cities needs quick access airports. What bloody moron decided to rip this GA gem up? I would be labeled insane if I destroyed London City Airport. No logic

[CalderonesRevenge]

Iit was actually the mayor and his wife that decided they would rather have a damn park instead of a historical airfield... What morons...And without warning, instead of red-xing the runways, plowed them with back-hos to further prevent use or even a chance of keeping it open...

[RobertGary1]

The major's brother and buds had been awarded to contract to build the park so it had to be done. :) Corruption in Chicago is generally accepted so its a great place for the Daley family.

[Ardrex]

The airport had a very high opportunity cost. That is, the land could be put to better use for the city and people of chicago. GA airports are precious, but there are cases where it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to use up alot of land near downtown for the benefit of a few people. Meigs was pretty big too, not just a small field for GA.

I just hope they use the land wisely so it enhances Chicago.

[gtg227a]

High opportunity cost or not, what Daley did was illegal. Meigs field had received federal funding which requires to remain open for a predetermined term. Not only that, but his act of damaging the runway in the middle of the night was a danger to air navigation (a federal offense).

The land has been wisely converted from the most recognizable GA runway in the world to a park.

[zmatt]

Its field/park that the Daley named after his wife.....

[planeboy737]

Dayley is the gayest mayor ever.

DIE MAYOR

[hillndale57]

have flown in to Meigs for fun and business many times...never bothered to video because it never occured to me MD would actually get away with scrapping the runway. Beautiful, wonderful place to fly into, even with the fuel prices and assorted expenses.

[AgentJohnson1]

I have always hated that bastard of a mayor and this just makes it even more.

[AgentJohnson1]

Daley is a fucking moron for doing this. What was the point of ripping up a wonderful airport. Just because it was close to downtown doesnt make any difference. a runway at o'hare has an approach that comes close to downtown, so what about that daley. all he did was piss off a lot of people, ofcourse thats a very normal thing of him to do.

[MrSouthAfrica2006]

yes they closed it!Noone realy knows why!just because its to close to Downtown!

[MrSouthAfrica2006]

I hate the bastards how closed Meigs!It wa sone of the best airports ever.

[walkingdiamond]

u fuckin kiddin me who closed meigs airport ??