RE: After 21 years in office, Mayor Richard Daley will not run for another term......

[brad kaste]

http://www.suntimes.com/news/index.html

[Lionheart]

yayyyy....!


:ernae:


Now to rebuild that neat little airport in downtown Chicago...

[Cloud9Gal]

http://www.thesmileysign.com/temp/dc8d937c20032287a40edbc820f3f3fdc87f7d65.gif (http://www.thesmileysign.com/)

Thank you in advance!

[brad kaste]

....No political comments one way or another please. This is news. STRICTLY news.
Thank you. I have my opinions too,...but this isn't the forum to start a political football to be kicked around.....

[OBIO]

yayyyy....!
Now to rebuild that neat little airport in downtown Chicago...

That was the very same thought I had when I read the original post.

OBIO

[Naismith]

Why even raise the issue then? It is surely a local issue to wherever he oversees. I am positive that those who live there already know about it and those that do not could care less. It is this sort of non-news item that some people get so hot under the collar over. I'm not having a go at the OP, just a general observation.

[TARPSBird]

Mayor Daley's departure is of interest to flight simmers and aviation fans mainly due to his sneak-attack destruction of Meigs Field, Chicago's lakefront civil airport, several years ago. It was a public relations disaster for Daley. Meigs was the default airport in MS Flight Simulator up through FS2004.

[Toastmaker]

I wonder why MS picked Meigs, of all the GA airports in the U.S. ? There are others better situated, better known. I would have thought they'd use some field near Renton, Wa. Anybody know their rationale on this ??


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[txnetcop]

I wonder why MS picked Meigs, of all the GA airports in the U.S. ? There are others better situated, better known. I would have thought they'd use some field near Renton, Wa. Anybody know their rationale on this ??


:running:

Yes sir, I do know. In 1979 I was beta tester for the original Flight Simulator and a few subsequent releases. It was created by Bruce Artwick while he was a student. He founded the company SUBLOGIC while a student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Illinois_at_Urbana-Champaign) in 1979, which released the first version of Flight Simulator the following year. Meigs Field was a natural navigation point to fly.

As a matter of fact there was only a very limited world you could fly in the very first beta-the great lakes area. I moved to Silicon Valley and continued work with Sublogic and some other game companies as a software consultant.
Ted

[beana51]

Any thing about Chicago mayor Daily in our Sim world is "INCENDEARY!"....like yelling "FIRE "in a theater!...Nothing to do with politics , Absolutely nothing, except those who supported this ,get "touchy" about it now! But rather its an affair of ones heart!....like Someone ,cutting down an old OAK Tree...or Pulling Wings off a Butter fly! we abhor such insensitive a,mindless,and cruel actions!.....we are kinda lucky tho...in our "Walter Mitty "World Of Simming,we can still go there!,any time we want!

[Snuffy]

I dunno ... given what, or rather who, could replace him, ... Rahm Emmanuel ... I guess its up to the lesser of two evils for Chicagoans eh? Good Luck.

(MHO ... neither are worth the skin holding them together ... )


Yep, I remember flying a stick figure aircraft out of Megis in the early version of this stuff. Many times I never made it past the lake. I'll bet if they go look they could probably salvage atleast a thousand virtual aircraft I've dumped in it ... :icon_lol:

[TARPSBird]

When I was a kid, whenever we went to the Museum of Science & Industry my Mom always allowed me a side trip to Meigs for some plane-watching. The little airport was not only a landmark on the downtown lakefront but it provided convenient access for business traffic. Also for emergency services in case of some disaster like a major fire or terrorist attack. Mayor Daley tore up the runway on the thin pretext that Meigs could be used to launch a 9-11 style attack, when actually he wanted to build a park on the site. Now it's a very boring plot of land, its only redeeming feature is its great view of the Chicago skyline.

[Lionheart]

It would really be cool to see the land brought back to being an airport again, perhaps even an aviation museum, better then it was before, and of course, with a nice new, top end restaurant.

Man, that would be great.....


Could you imagine, 5 years from now, in the newest version of MS Flight, a default Meigs again?


:d

[Toastmaker]

Yes sir, I do know. In 1979 I was beta tester for the original Flight Simulator and a few subsequent releases. It was created by Bruce Artwick while he was a student. He founded the company SUBLOGIC while a student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Illinois_at_Urbana-Champaign) in 1979, which released the first version of Flight Simulator the following year. Meigs Field was a natural navigation point to fly.

As a matter of fact there was only a very limited world you could fly in the very first beta-the great lakes area. I moved to Silicon Valley and continued work with Sublogic and some other game companies as a software consultant.
Ted

Ok, that explains it. I remember SubLogic. Thanks, Ted.

(sorry for the late response -)

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[pilottj]

I wouldnt be able to post a response with out using a few four letter words regarding the person of subject matter. So I will let Monty Python do it instead:icon_lol:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enSYlCEz5VI