Yeah… I think aircraft designers used to envision that genetic engineering would give them aircraft techies with additional extra-jointed limbs, having more and longer fingers with tips secreting a sticky substance.
Or maybe they actually got their designs from aliens, for whom this was common…? 
Normally it’s a guy in his shed somewhere with a cup of tea and pipe
Breaks my heart every time I see it. Either one actually.
The second pic gives me heartburn already…
Poor Meigs- didn’t deserve that.
We all cut our teeth there
Indeed!
My Dad flew the last flight out of there for Air Illinois back in the day.
Buried somewhere here is a story I’ve told many times about my first time flying into Meigs. The punchline is that the only way to get in was to shoot an ILS into Midway, fly below the deck and navigate visually to Meigs–at night. I had never been to Chicago. Had it not been for my countless hours playing Flight Simulator, I would still be circling 30 years later.
At least they put a nice park there now for people to enjoy, that is not all bad.
I just noticed that I had not liked that post yet, and corrected that error. 
That’s a great story… As I was flying over Chicago yesterday…beautiful, blue sky, VFR day. We flew the departure out of Palwaukee and they gave us a box pattern climb off of runway 16 down there. East, North, West, then finally South out towards MONKZ and EMEGE and all those fixes. We were already at 13,000’ by the time we crossed Palwaukee again heading southeast bound. I was looking down at O’Hare, Midway…and so much nostalgia of taking off from Meigs and lining up on the runways at O’Hare for quick flights. Or the white checkerboard pattern that the old FSII for the Commodore 64 showed for the fields on the way down to Champaign/Urbana… What great…distant memories. I hope kids are still getting those out of these sims. Inspiration.
Couldn’t take pics for security reasons but i just had an MC-130J in my wing mirrors following me along the whole taxiway at Brize.
Be still my heart.
The bloke who i met said he’s never seen someone so excited
Bet after going round that post you are seeing spiral 
My intention was that spiral to be the whole patio, but client lady wanted more of the straight-straight. OK, your money 
Never tell an artist how to paint.
Your stonework is amazing
