Sad day for aviation...Tempelhof closed yesterday!

[grunau_baby]

with the final take off of the Ju52 just before 12 pm yesterday airport Tempelhof in Berlin was closed for good! What a political nonsense and what a los this is!!!:banghead:

Alex

[Nausicaa]

The end of an era.....

[crashaz]

Talk about famous airports... none much more than this one. It played a very important role in world affairs. Sad to see it's loss. :isadizzy:

[Quicksand]

I can remember as a kid swimming in the huge indoor pool at Tempelhof when my family lived in Berlin from '70 to '75. My Dad was assigned to Berlin Brigade, and I remember going to some airshows there as well. I also remember swimming in a smaller pool right beside one of the taxiways. It had a privacy fence around it, but we could see the tails of the planes as they went by, and I especially enjoyed the music of the radials of the (K)C-97's as they passed. I was always in awe of the Berlin Airlft Memorial, and the way the Berliners preserved the memory of that trying time. Sad that they have closed it....