RIP Tempelhof :'(
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- janne76
11 hours to go.. (countdown on right)
http://www.berlin-airport.de/EN/…landing
dutch:
http://www.nrc.nl/buitenland/art…farewell, dear mother of all airports.
- neverblink0
it says in the nrc piece that the buildings will remain and be transform to house companies.
- transform+edneverblink
- yeah but no planes, ffs. takes out all the charm!!janne76
- invisiblechamber0
i use to live right there (weisestarsse). the incoming planes were really shaving the balconies close. people complained, but i thought it had something to it. only 1 or 2 planes per day though.
- i know. that's the problem. too few planes there.. :(
nice neighbourhood though! :)janne76 - "used to" i don't live there anymore.invisiblechamber
- i know. that's the problem. too few planes there.. :(
- TheBlueOne0
- :)TheBlueOne
- Nice!janne76
- Ha!JazX
- I hate that typeface.gramme
- digdre0
are they exploding it? or just shutting it dowN?
- kelpie0
Its a historically important building, it may have a bit of a dark past but I really hope it isn't broken down. Maybe they're a bit eager to erase the legacy of a certain austrian in berlin, understandably, but I hope they don't
- < ignorant brit disclaimer, no offence to any berliners you beautiful peoplekelpie
- digdre0
I hope they make a nice shoppingcenter out of it. no? :p
a museum would be cool. design museum.
- bezul5550
Nice piece of history
- JazX0
koolsla
:-(
- rafalski0
I remember the airport name from news reports as a kid, during the commie era. Polish runaway pilots would choose it as their main destination. The pilot (or a skyjacker) would go to jail for two years or so (as I remember), but the passengers became free people.
"A jogger, I ran Tempelhof’s inner perimeter. Once, in 1968, I looked up at a landing airplane and saw it had the letters LOT, which stood for the Polish national airline. Polish airliners are not allowed into Western airspace. Skyjacked! Still in my jogging clothes I reported the story, which included an interview with the base commander. He had learned that for one of the stewardesses, it was the second skyjacking to Tempelhof. “If she gets skyjacked again,” he said, “I’m going to make her a member of the officers’ club.” So many skyjacked LOT airliners landed at the airport that the joke around the field was that LOT stood for Land on Tempelhof."
- JazX0
http://www.nrc.nl/buitenland/art…
In other Dutch news, "The East Congolese State of Goma is in the grip of chaos and panic." Funny how Afrikaans is so similar.
