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- nahsrocketeer75, on 03/02/2009, -0/+10The foot-powered sky cycle looks like something they might try on Mythbusters.
- palmer, on 03/03/2009, -0/+9Another sad irony: This article talks about Chicago-based aviation, but doesn't mention that Mayor Daley illegally destroyed one of the world's most beautiful small airports, Meigs Field. The small airstrip resided on the lake, where pilots could land right at the foot of the skyline. In 2003, Daley secretly ordered bulldozers to destroy the runway in the middle of the night.
Why? He wanted to seize the land to build a park named after his wife. This after various organizations even offered to name the aiport after his wife. He had been trying to take the land since the mid '90s, and used 9/11 as a pathetic excuse for his action. Not only did he destroy an irreplaceable airport (and replace it with nothing, by they way, since there was no budget or actual plan for anything on the island), but it cost the city millions in business, FAA fines, and court costs.
The sad story:
http://www.friendsofmeigs.org - Regulator980, on 03/03/2009, -1/+9Dugg for having a decent slideshow that didn't shamelessly refresh every single page for more ad revenue.
- palmer, on 03/03/2009, -1/+8Too bad this history is coming to an end for most of us, thanks to spiteful residents, corrupt politicians, and bad PR. Since 1969, the U.S. has lost a quarter of its airports (source: AOPA).
We've all seen that we've reached the end of the road, literally, for car-based ground transportation. We can't and won't ever build enough roads to alleviate our abysmal traffic, and it's going to get worse.
The sad fact is that this nation was once covered by a network of small airports that would have served us extremely well for current and future forms of air transport, alleviating traffic on roads and at large airports. But in today's short-sighted, ignorant, and selfish society, we have people who essentially move next door to these small airports, enjoy the associated discount on their house (which should never have been allowed so close to the airport to begin with), and then start bitching about that airport. With fat-cat developers waiting to seize the land and offering hefty kickbacks to local governments, few people are left to defend our irreplaceable general-aviation infrastructure. Especially now with general aviation being perceived as a bunch of rich jerkoffs in corporate jets who waste money.
That image of general aviation is grossly inaccurate. GA provides jobs and much-needed income to the communities that surround these airports, and most pilots are very community-oriented people who scrape and save just to be able to fly a used plane. And those corporate jets? When used properly, they're cost-effective and they relieve traffic from major airports. A group of people can fly more directly to where they need to go. Whenever you analyze these airport closures, it turns out that the communities actually lose millions of dollars and we all lose, FOREVER, one of the freedoms that make the United States a great place to live. We're allowing aviation to be taken away from every citizen and handed over to private interests and mismanaged airlines that have insulted those same citizens with one rip-off after another for years. All for miserably small short-term gain.
If you live near a small airport, support it! Take a "discovery flight" with a flight school. We all have the right and opportunity to fly a plane in the United States. Even if you're not interested, your children might be. And in all seriousness, every "flying car" design that realistically has a chance today still requires a legitimate airport. Without GA, our history of aerial inventiveness will come to a sad end.
Take action in your community. Oppose developments that encroach on airports. Fight airport closures. Help educate people. Don't let hateful interests destroy the dream of aviation for everybody. - BMGfan, on 03/03/2009, -0/+6Thank you, both of you for your long replies.
I'm TRULY shocked and dismayed that the mayor of Chicago would do that. That's frankly sickening. - RealmDown, on 03/03/2009, -0/+5Grounded.
- d2002, on 03/03/2009, -0/+5Reminds me of that grant rant about flying in Everything's Amazing, nobody's happy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoGYx35ypus - kayco, on 03/03/2009, -0/+5You're in a chair.... in the SKY!
- upick, on 03/02/2009, -0/+3And where would we all be without these pioneers?
- spar13, on 03/03/2009, -0/+3I believe they can't fly
- finalcloud33, on 03/03/2009, -0/+2this left me wanting...
- xsecretfiles, on 03/03/2009, -0/+2I find it hard to believe that commercial airlines have been out for only 50-60 years....
It's stuff like this that makes me proud to live in the 21century - mrgreenjeans, on 03/03/2009, -0/+1"It's stuff like this that makes me proud to live in the...century."
I've always imagined that every age, people must have had the same sentiments about fire, the sandal, the boat, etc., thinking, "It just doesn't get any better than this!" - sunebeck, on 03/03/2009, -0/+1Shopping Cart In The Thumb!
(SCITT) - Gravey9, on 03/03/2009, -0/+1Jacobson won a trophy.
Great line.
This should also be called "Fascination With Flight: Chicago's Aviation History In Photos" - drivingalone, on 03/03/2009, -0/+0Dugg for the last picture. Awesome old skyline shot.
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