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Skybird
10-30-08, 03:18 PM
Tonight, at midnight German time, the world'S oldest still active traffic airport will see it's last two flights ever taking off on special flights. After the DC-3 and the Ju-52 will have taken off, Tempelhof airfield in Berlin will shut down service, forever. Offices and shops already have been moved out, no other planes are there anymore.

Damn, it's strange because I did not experience it's great old times and the airlift: but it hurts nevertheless. If that is not irrational.


http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,druck-587535,00.html
Digital_Trucker
10-30-08, 03:28 PM
Not irrational at all. Sometimes the things we've never experienced are the things we miss the most when they are gone.:yep:
Tchocky
10-30-08, 03:30 PM
:cry:
Skybird
10-30-08, 04:18 PM
PHOTOSTORY.
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/medien/fotos/cme9297,125213.html
bookworm_020
10-30-08, 04:51 PM
Not irrational at all. Sometimes the things we've never experienced are the things we miss the most when they are gone.:yep:
Agree with you there!:up:
August
10-30-08, 05:12 PM
It's not what it is so much as what it represents and it's not really necessary to have experienced it first hand to feel it's loss.
AVGWarhawk
10-30-08, 05:50 PM
Not irrational at all. I love experiencing "how it was". This airport is obviously a "how it was." You get the feeling of an era gone by and wonder just what was wrong with that era that has cause it to go by. Is industrial advancement always good?
FIREWALL
10-30-08, 05:55 PM
Sadly Progress always wins out over History.
Hylander_1314
10-30-08, 06:57 PM
Yes progress moves on, but to take such a rich history as the airfield has is a shame.
Skybird
10-30-08, 07:11 PM
The irony is that the senate's beating argument was not only the new airport they build, but that Tempelhof was running deficitary and lost 11-15 million per year. But the closed airfield now also costs money, roughly one million per month. Which makes around 12 million per year. Isn't that sound logic.
Hylander_1314
10-30-08, 07:21 PM
Skybird, it's the same lossonomics that got us into trouble. So it looks like the German authorities are doing the "monkey see monkey do" that they do here in the states.
Skybird
10-30-08, 07:51 PM
Skybird, it's the same lossonomics that got us into trouble. So it looks like the German authorities are doing the "monkey see monkey do" that they do here in the states.
Yes stupidity is everywhere, we just give it different names.