Saturday, December 19, 2009

No RWY 36 anymore



More than 20 years ago Microsoft's Flight Simulator (in CGA and later EGA on 4,77 MHz 8088 processors) used to be my favourite game. Still today, sitting in a plane approaching Chicago O'Hare, it is remarkable how well I remember every detail of this area although Chicago Meigs Air Field RWY 36 is history...

3 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

Possibly they closed it because too many pilots tried to fly between the antennae on the nearby skyscrapers ;-).

3:45 pm  
Blogger MarkusPhotoBlog said...

You have no idea how often I terminated flights by deliberately crashing the Cessna into the John Hancock Tower.... well, I guess: everyone did ;-)

5:27 pm  
Blogger MarkusPhotoBlog said...

This is nice:

http://fshistory.simflight.com/fsvault/msfs1-pc.htm

http://fshistory.simflight.com/fsvault/msfs2-pc.htm

5:33 pm  

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