Saluting Closure of Meadowlark Airport
Meadowlark is closed. An era has ended, and our connection with the sky is less.
Gone now are the sounds of in-line radial engines, no longer will we watch planes taxiing, taking off.
Landing Xs mark the runway--closed. In the last days of Meadowlark Airport, pilots flew by in small formations of older Pipers, Cessnas, Luscombes, and Taylorcrafts to salute this one-time refuge of fabric covered birds.
An antique Douglas DC-2 made a low pass and wagged its wings to say farewell, and later came the Goodyear blimp, whose pilot has a fondness for this runway on which to drag his lines.
An era has ended as one more parcel of open space vanishes in a wilderness of growth.
G. PAT MACHA
Huntington Beach
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