End of an era

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/...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.

Tchocky · 10-30-08, 03:30 PM

Skybird · 10-30-08, 04:18 PM

PHOTOSTORY.
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/medien/fo...97,125213.html

bookworm_020 · 10-30-08, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker

Not irrational at all. Sometimes the things we've never experienced are the things we miss the most when they are gone.

Agree with you there!

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hylander_1314

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.

10-30-08, 03:18 PM	#1
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,604 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	End of an era 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/...587535,00.html __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

10-30-08, 03:28 PM	#2
Digital_Trucker Silent Hunter Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: The Peach State Posts: 4,171 Downloads: 141 Uploads: 10	Not irrational at all. Sometimes the things we've never experienced are the things we miss the most when they are gone. __________________ RSM-GIEP-Killflags-LV Tribute-Playable Elco __Peace be with you, Dave.

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10-30-08, 04:18 PM	#4
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,604 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	PHOTOSTORY. http://www.tagesspiegel.de/medien/fo...97,125213.html __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

10-30-08, 05:12 PM	#6
August Wayfaring Stranger Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 23,197 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	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. __________________ Flanked by life and the funeral pyre. Putting on a show for you to see.

10-30-08, 05:50 PM	#7
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,253 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	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? __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

10-30-08, 05:55 PM	#8
FIREWALL Eternal Patrol Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CATALINA IS. SO . CAL USA Posts: 10,108 Downloads: 511 Uploads: 0	Sadly Progress always wins out over History. __________________ RIP FIREWALL I Play GWX. Silent Hunter Who ???

10-30-08, 06:57 PM	#9
Hylander_1314 Sea Lord Join Date: May 2006 Location: 5 Miles Inland West Of Lake Huron Posts: 1,936 Downloads: 139 Uploads: 0	Yes progress moves on, but to take such a rich history as the airfield has is a shame. __________________ A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law. -John Marshall Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ---------------------

10-30-08, 07:11 PM	#10
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,604 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	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. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

10-30-08, 07:21 PM	#11
Hylander_1314 Sea Lord Join Date: May 2006 Location: 5 Miles Inland West Of Lake Huron Posts: 1,936 Downloads: 139 Uploads: 0	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. __________________ A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law. -John Marshall Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ---------------------

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