Taxiing for takeoff at Berlin's Tempelhof - Germany

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.

I remember one horrific argument with a girlfriend in the 1970s which ended with her shouting: "I'm leaving the country - don't try and follow me!" It was a line which surely would have earned a place in the sequel. But most of all I remember - as everybody does - the tragic departure in the airport.

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I do find it tragic that Tempelhof will be closed, and probably turned into some godawful supermarket or shopping complex of fuck knows what...

Those of us that can remember the air show disasters at Rammstein in 1988 and Lviv, Ukraine in 2002 are a bit queasy about an air show in a heavily populated area.
Tempelhof is yesterday's news. You're right.

Tempelhof holds a special connection to all of Germany not just Berlin. I would offer that Tempelhof should be used to show the the aviation connection it has brought to many countries and individuals. I agree an aerospace museum would be a start but it should be more. A international conference center connected to the military and civilian sectors of aircraft development. It should be developed as an international center for development of all modes of space flight. Tempelhof was an example of how manned flight could benefit both military and civilian uses. It should contiune to be used as a stepping stone for the future of flight.

Wasn't the idea of Templehof as a world-class air museum first mooted back in June in the Goethe Institut's Rory's Berlin blog?
http://blog.goethe.de/meet-the-germans/index.php?/archives/2009/06.html
I was for the idea then, and I'm still for it now!

Tempelhof is a perfect business airport. Anything else would be a waste of time and energy.
One day the left retards who made the decision to close that pearl are out of power.
It has to be resurrected. If not, then this city is meaningless anyway.

I also supported the idea of using Tempelhof as a massive air museum as part of the Exberliner's 'Save Berlin' campaign.
I'm just reading 'The Berlin Candy Bomber' written by 'Uncle Wiggly Wings' himself. I never realised how close the world came to WWIII over the Berlin blockade, if the airlift had failed a 'hot' war was very much on the cards. The US had it's nuclear bombers on standby in the UK if the Russians tried to intervene. Not only was the airlift an amazing example of humanitarian relief but it's success changed the history of the world a possibly prevented a nuclear war. The significance of the airlift alone is reason enough to preserve Tempelhof as a center for aviation.
Mind you, Tegel airport was built purely to aid the airlift effort and is also destined for closure. But we can't turn everything into a museum.

should have sold it to Langhammer and Co. a few years ago when it was really worth something. Then, you could have had a boat load of euro to invest elsewhere AND the best medical facilities in the world. but no, too stubborn. now you're contemplating a religious laboratory? An aircraft museum? or just a leave it there long enough paying for for the chance that ''maybe, just maybe, something will take off again in this city.'. Good luck it'll be a brickyard or a refugee camp sooner.
Fly? Germany will do no such thing. Germany is too busy selling-out every value that rebuilt it as a major European/World Power after the War. Germans just too busy whipping themselves to get anything right these days. O the guilt.