Sadly, today Tempelhof closes forever. However, the author does a good job of reminding us of it's historical significance in the Cold War.
It was overcast today, but, I think I heard the Gooney Bird fly over!!!
1 posted on
10/31/2008 10:24:15 AM PDT by
lowbuck
To: lowbuck
2 posted on
10/31/2008 10:27:35 AM PDT by
LucyT
("0bama has voted to raise taxes ... 94 times.")
To: lowbuck
DC-3s are still flying. Just a few years ago, wife and I flew Air Libertad from Huatulco to Oaxaca, Mexico. Slow and comfortable, we flew between the mountain peaks low enough that I could see people coming and going below.
To: lowbuck
Templelhof opened in 1923.
4 posted on
10/31/2008 10:31:13 AM PDT by
LucyT
("0bama has voted to raise taxes ... 94 times.")
To: lowbuck
Douglas DC3
5 posted on
10/31/2008 10:33:26 AM PDT by
LucyT
("0bama has voted to raise taxes ... 94 times.")
To: lowbuck
I was an USAF air traffic controller in Berlin from 84-88 and from 86-88 I was in charge of the control tower at Tempelhof. I have many, many good memorys of Berlin and Tempelhof. Without a doubt, it was the most unusual air traffic assignment of my career. Truely a passing of an era.
7 posted on
10/31/2008 10:40:25 AM PDT by
ops33
(Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
To: lowbuck
Went to a benefit film at our local theater a couple of weeks ago, which also included a concert by a jazz band made up of ‘old timers’.
The drummer/vocalist is a B-17 pilot, with 50 missions over Germany, (got a standing ovation) who also flew these Airlift missions.
He flew yet another mission to Berlin in the 1960’s.
The YOUNGEST guy in the group had his high school graduation ceremony on the theater's stage in the mid 1940’s.
ALL the group's members were veterans.
It was awesome.
13 posted on
10/31/2008 1:09:48 PM PDT by
ApplegateRanch
(The Great Obamanation of Desolation, attempting to sit in the Oval Office, where he ought not..)
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