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• Taxiing for takeoff at Berlin's Tempelhof - Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport might be closed to air traffic, but Roger Boyes, correspondent for British daily The Times, believes it could still help the German capital soar. Modern romance began with the film Casablanca. The smouldering saga of Bogart and Bergman had everything one needed to structure a 20th century emotional narrative: adultery, betrayal, forgiveness, jealousy, bribery and a spectacular parting.
• Berlin votes to keep Tempelhof Airport - Of 90,000 votes, some 60,000 were in favour of preserving the world’s first commercial airport. Just 38,000 were needed for the recommendation to go through at the Berlin district office. Berlin residents failed to turn out and vote to save Tempelhof in April 2008, but activist group be-4-tempelhof.de petitioned for the referendum to ensure that it will be preserved in a manner that could eventually garner UNESCO World Heritage status.
• Activist group petitions to save Tempelhof airport - Berlin residents failed to turn out and vote to save the city’s historic Tempelhof airport this April, but now an activist group has announced they are petitioning for a referendum to ensure that it will be preserved as an architectural monument, Berlin daily Der Tagesspiegel reported on Monday.
• Last chance for Tempelhof - AOPA-Germany’s managing director, Michael Erb, wrote me the other day asking for help in saving Berlin, Germany’s Tempelhof Airport. It may be the last chance to keep the historic airport open. A referendum to keep the airport open failed to get enough votes earlier this year. And Klaus Wowereit (pronounced Vo-ver-ite), Berlin’s mayor, who has always wanted to close Tempelhof, now seems to be on track to getting his way. He’s the Richard Daley of Berlin.
• Poor, sexy and incompetent in Berlin - Berlin is facing months of public transport chaos caused by a near-total shutdown of the city’s S-Bahn commuter train network. The latest installment of Portnoy's Stammtisch, The Local’s column about life in Germany, asks what the mayor is doing to end the mess. Mayor Klaus Wowereit once famously called Berlin “poor but sexy,” yet this latest S-Bahn debacle proves he left out an important adjective: the German capital is poor, sexy and incompetent.
• Airlift airport closes: So long, Tempelhof - Friday’s the last day for Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport. Sad thing, really. Regional airliners and general aviation flights will now have to go to far away Schoenefeld Airport–about an hour’s drive, or subway ride, from Berlin’s city center. True, traffic at Tempelhof had slowed since the mid-1970s, when the major airlines left to go to Tegel, another Berlin airport. By the way, Tegel itself is scheduled to close in 2012 or 2013. Meanwhile, Schoenefeld (to be renamed Berlin-Brandenburg International, or BBI) is designated as Berlin’s sole airport. But it’s in no way prepared to handle the influx of new flights that would have used Tegel or Tempelhof.
• Tempelhof to shut down - Tempelhof, a city airport much like Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport, or Kansas City’s Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport, is located just minutes from Berlin’s downtown. But since last year its fate has followed a trajectory closer to that of Chicago’s erstwhile downtown airport—Meigs Field. The similarities extend to a unilateral decision by a narrow-minded mayor hell-bent on a shutdown, who ignored organized protests and referenda conducted by local citizens and the general aviation pilot community. And plans to turn Tempelhof into parkland.
• Germans grateful for U.S. help - BERLIN -- Germans who care about their relations with the United States are in upbeat mood this week, looking both to the past and the future. Today is the 60th anniversary of the start of the Berlin Airlift -- the daring American-led operation to feed some 2 million West Berliners under Soviet blockade. As they celebrate the event with fond reminiscences of American courage and generosity, many Germans are filled with excitement at the possibility of Barack Obama capturing the White House. German media have anointed the Democratic candidate the new John F. Kennedy, and see him as being more in sync with their views on the Iraq war and global warming.
• Tempelhof Airport (THF) Information - Each year, over 600,000 passengers will fly to and from Berlin Tempelhof Airport (THF), making this a small, but significant local facility. Although the future of Tempelhof Airport is limited, since it is closing in October 2008 due to unprofitability, it continues to serve the city of Berlin with mainly commuter flights.
• No Rescue, Yet, for Airport That Saved Berlin - On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the historic, American-led airlift to supply the besieged capital, the mayor is going ahead with plans to close the airport by year’s end. How sad. A last-minute campaign by his political opponents to save it through a citywide referendum late last month won a majority, but not enough Berliners turned out to make the vote official. Now, talk about twists of fate, a big international air show opening here in a few days will celebrate the airlift’s anniversary — but not at Tempelhof. It will take place at Berlin-Schönefeld International Airport, in the former east Germany, whose pending expansion is the immediate cause of Tempelhof’s demise.
• German airport may face same fate as Meigs - In a situation reminiscent of Mayor Richard Daley’s closure of Chicago’s Meigs Field, the city government of Berlin has moved forward with plans to close Tempelhof, the city’s historic downtown airport. The airport could close as early as Oct. 31, 2008. Tempelhof serves as a major business aviation airport and is minutes from the city center. Brussels Airlines, Cirrus Airlines, Intersky Airlines, and numerous air taxi firms also use Tempelhof. So does Tempelhof Aviators, an FBO specializing in flight training.
• Description of the situation of the Berlin airport - Description of the situation of the Berlin airports and resulting importance of the Tempelhof airport - 1. Location The Tempelhof airport is conveniently placed as regards transportation services. The integration in an efficient road and rail traffic net in the middle of the main growing business center and capital of the Federal Republic of Germany ensures an unsurpassable accessibility...
• Spectacle in Berlin - Barack Obama is a man in a hurry. He had barely quieted the criticism of his using the presidential seal with his name on it as a prop for his speeches before he suggested that he wanted to follow Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton to Berlin to make a speech at the Brandenburg Gate. He got a lot of public reminders that Reagan and Clinton waited until they were sworn in to use the famous gate as backdrop.
• Presidential Candidate Barack Obama to visit Tempe - Probably influenced by pressure from the Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit prevented Barack Obama´s speech in Tempelhof, a visit by the United States Presidential Candidate to the historic site is still on the agenda. The extensive discussions in preparation for his visit have served to demonstrate that the future of Tempelhof is still an internationally controversial subject and that the Airport is a monument of historic importance...
• Obama sets Senate wishlist Berlin visit - Die Befürworter einer Offenhaltung des Flughafens Tempelhof versuchen, den Besuch des US-Präsidentschaftskandidaten Barack Obama in Berlin für sich zu nutzen: Sie haben Obama eingeladen, seine Rede auf dem Flughafen zu halten. Doch daraus wird wohl nichts werden. Das Obama-Team inspiziert die Stadt und sucht nach einem geeigneten Ort.
• Invitation to Berlin - Dear Senator Obama - With this letter we would like to renew the Invitation from our public letter on Monday. We believe that the far most best location for a speech in Berlin is Tempelhof Airport. This is the unique location where the friendship between Germany and the US was founded with the Berlin Airlift in 1948/49. It is also the Symbol of Freedom of Berlin, Germany and Europe. We know that the mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit, has no interest that Tempelhof appears in public and tries to avoid any trouble around it. We suspect that this is due to his coalition partner, the former East German communist party.
• Berlin Mayor, Symbol of Openness, Has National App - If he were not mayor, Mr. Wowereit said, his idea of a perfect Saturday night would be to stay home and read a book or watch television. At most, he might join a small group of friends for dinner.
• Future of Historic Airport Has Berlin Divided Agai - Future of Historic Airport Has Berlin Divided Again Tempelhof Won Fame as Nerve Center of Postwar...
• Berlin votes to keep Tempelhof Airport - Of 90,000 votes, some 60,000 were in favour of preserving the world’s first commercial airport. Berlin residents failed to turn out and vote to save Tempelhof in April 2008, but activist group be-4-tempelhof.de petitioned for the referendum to ensure that it will be preserved in a manner that could eventually garner UNESCO World Heritage status.
• Campaign to Keep Berlin's Tempelhof Airport Open - As reported in December by Airport International, authorities in Germany decided to close Tempelhof in October 2008 as part of the preparations to centralise air services to and from the city on the forthcoming Berlin-Brandenburg International (BBI), which is located at the existing Berlin-Schonefeld Airport. But supporters of the grand old airport - which gained fame for its part in the Berlin Airlift during 1948-49 - have rallied in the months since then, and have persauded authorities to hold a referendum on Sunday 27th April at which Berliners will be able to vote whether they want Tempelhof to remain open.
• Berlin's historical Tempelhof Airport closes - The sky above the capital has been resounding to the drone of planes as people take advantage of "Goodbye Tempelhof" -- sightseeing flights in original Douglas DC3 planes used in the 1948-49 Airlift. Dozens of recreational pilots from around Germany have been flying to Tempelhof to experience it "just one more time."
• Tempelhof International Airport - History - Tempelhof International Airport (IATA: THF, ICAO: EDDI) a.k.a. Berlin Tempelhof (German: Flughafen Tempelhof) is an airport in Berlin, Germany, situated in the south-central borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg. This airport is commonly known as Tempelhof as well. Designated by the ministry of transport on October 8, 1923, Tempelhof became the world's first airport with an underground railway station in 1927, now called 'Platz der Luftbrücke' after the Berlin Airlift. While occasionally cited as the world's oldest still-operating commercial airport, Kingsford Smith International Airport in Sydney, Australia predates it by three years.
• Tempelhof Airport is Berlin’s open book - On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the historic, American-led airlift to supply the besieged capital, the mayor is going ahead with plans to close the airport by year’s end. How sad. A last-minute campaign by his political opponents to save it through a citywide referendum late last month won a majority, but not enough Berliners turned out to make the vote official.
• CLOSE UP Klaus Wowereit, the mayor of Berlin. - Wowereit shrugs off suggestions that he should spend less time in front of TV cameras and more time in corporate boardrooms. "This kind of promotion is part of my personality, but it's also important to show the savoir vivre you can feel that makes the city so attractive internationally," Wowereit says.

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• More information about Berlin Brigade - The 852nd Engineer Aviation Battalion arrived at Tempelhof on 10 July 1945. United States Army Air Force units also took over the airfield, and the 862nd Engineer Aviation Battalion built a concrete runway. With the formation of the United States Air Force in 1947, Tempelhof became a USAF base. The United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) renamed the facility to Tempelhof Air Base ...
• US-Army Berlin-Brigade - During its operational life, it was garrisoned by the United States Air Force, with units of the United States Army Berlin Brigade located within the facility. TCA was located in the southern suburbs of greater Berlin, about 2 miles from the center of the city. It was bounded on the north by Columbiadamm, on the west by Mehringdamm, and on the south by the Templehof Freight Terminal; about 1/2 mile north of the Teltow Canal in the "American Sector" of West Berlin.
• Allied Museum - WELCOME ADDRESS - The Allied Museum tells a unique story full of excitement and drama. Almost like in a fairy tale, the forces of Good win in the end. Let's take a look back: in the summer of 1945, the troops of the USA, Great Britain and France marched into Berlin as victors and occupiers. Along with their war ally, the Soviet Union, they planned to occupy the German Reich, defeated in World War II, and liberate it from National Socialism.
• Allied Museum - CHRONOLOGY - The German Historical Museum develops the idea of working up an exhibition on the history of the Western forces and Berlin from 1945 to 1990. The commanders of the Western allied troops are informed of the idea and asked to provide support in acquiring suitable exhibition items.
• Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation (in englisch) - Our Mission is to preserve this memory by preserving several aircraft used in the great event and creating "Flying Memorials and Classrooms" with the purpose of educating the public about this pivotal, yet forgotten, event in world history.
• Last call for Berlin's Tempelhof airport - "This is a sad moment. This place is part of our lives, a part of Berlin," said Helga Stock, recalling how, aged eight, she had stared in awe at the non-stop stream of aircraft descending on Tempelhof, crammed with the goods to sustain a stranded city. "For us, Tempelhof is a place of hope."
• Berlin Blockade - On June 12, 1948 the Soviet Union declared that the Autobahn leading into Berlin from West Germany was "closed for repairs." Three days later road traffic between the sectors was halted, and on June 21 all barge traffic into the city was stopped. Finally, on June 24 the Soviets announced that due to "technical difficulties" there would be no more rail traffic to and from Berlin. The following day they announced that the Soviet sector would not supply food to the sectors of the city that were under Western administration. The Western powers had never negotiated a pact with the Soviets guaranteeing these passage rights. The Soviets rejected arguments that occupation rights in Berlin and the use of the routes during the previous three years had given the West legal claim to unimpeded use of the highways, tunnels, and railroads.
• Berlin-Tempelhof airport in fight for its life - “We would never have survived without this airport,” said Christian Fuchs, a pensioner in Berlin who will vote against its closure tomorrow. “We owe our lives to it.” Gerd Langguth, biographer of Mrs Merkel, said that “for West Germans Tempelhof is a symbol of freedom, not just another airport”.
• Berlin Tempelhof Airport vs. Chicago’s Meigs Field - Best of all was being up on the roof one night and looking out over the enormous ramp. I imagined what it was like 20 years before when the life of the city depended upon the airport. All those radial engines starting up, all those growling propellers as the airplanes rolled down the runway. All that life. Now it is all gone. Tell me, is it true the name Richard Daley in German sounds a lot like Klaus Wowereit?

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