On Thursday 17 July 2008, Torsten Dreyer wrote: > Hi everybody > > while cleaning up the memory of my cell phone, I found some > pictures taken at various flights that I found worth sharing with > you. Find them at http://www.t3r.de/flightpics/ > > Some of them show my probably last approach into Berlin > Tempelhof, EDDI - the "mother of all airports", threaded by > closure in october 2008 by the Berlin's mayor Mr. Wowereit due to > some obscure political reasons. > > Tempelhof played a major role during the Berlin airlift in 1948 > and has been a symbol for freedom ever since. Read more at > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempelhof_International_Airport > > All legal and political ways to save EDDI from closure have been > tried unsuccessfully, but there is one last chance: the UNESCO > world cultural heritage site. Please check > http://www.tempelhof-weltkulturerbe.de/ and consider signing the > petition. > > Have a great summer > > Torsten
It's a shame about Tempelhof but it has to be sacrificed to justify the money spent at Schöenefeld and to allow the valuable Tempelhof real-estate to be sold off for a tidy profit. There are some safety issues regarding approach paths, but this also applies to Heathrow when the wind is from the west. That's not to forget, of course, that some people will profit enormously from this. LeeE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
