Convention of conventions for everything air show gets underway

What do you get when you take a convention hall full of type-A personalities with HADD (Horizontal Attitude Deficit Disorder), stuff them into one room, tell them to wear Hawaiian shirts so loud they're more effective than the new GPS-enhanced ELT's, unveil four open bars and start the music?

"This is yet another insult. Our 400,000 members know this airport wasn't abandoned. Meigs Field was willfully destroyed by elected officials using public monies that were intended for airport construction, not destruction. We're analyzing the city's brief to determine if there is an appropriate legal response from AOPA. But it's clear that the city is once again engaging in revisionist history and justification." Source: AOPA President Phil Boyer reacting to a brief to the FAA filed by the city of Chicago. The 40-page document says Chicago indeed used airport funds for both Midway and O'Hare to complete the demolition of Meigs field that Mayor Richard Daley started under cover of darkness because the ripped up strip had been "abandoned."