1935 Soaring In Alps

Ernest Udet flight promo from 1935...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLA3SI6ykrU

On 8/26/2010 5:50 PM, sisu1a wrote:
On Aug 26, 4:07 pm, wrote:
Ernest Udet flight promo from 1935...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLA3SI6ykrU

Great film, and (spoiler alert) at the end it shows a large formation
of Nazi bipes (quite illegal in 1935 since after WWI Germany was
forbade powered aircraft) flying overhead IIRC.

-Paul
Umm...(waiting for an actual German to step in here :-)) though Hitler in fact
abrogated the Versailles Treaty in stages (e.g. exiting the League of Nations
October '33), it wasn't until March of '35 that he announced to the world the
existence of the Luftwaffe. However, I believe the outright ban on German
building of power planes was eased in the early 1920's, though for some years
thereafter strict horsepower limits were continued.

And of course, what this bit of history has to do with soaring can - in one
word - be spelled: Wasserkuppe...

Anally,
Bob W.

If I'm not mistaken the take off scene was shot on the frozen Eibsee, a lake just outside Garmisch-Partenkirchen. It sits just below the Zupspitze, Germany's highest peak at about 10k ft. I was stationed there in Army for several years and flew the crap out of my hang glider all around those peaks.

On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:54:43 -0600, Bob Whelan wrote:

And of course, what this bit of history has to do with soaring can - in
one word - be spelled: Wasserkuppe...

I thought I recognised the buildings in one or two shots and the initial
takeoff was probably down the strip occupied by the current hard runway,
but that's all that looked familiar. I visited in summer: it all looks a
lot different under snow!


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And of course, what this bit of history has to do with soaring can - in one
word - be spelled: Wasserkuppe...

Bob W.

As we speak, I'm traveling east on my 7th pilgrimage to the
Wasserkuppe, the Segelflug Museum and the vintage club.
Hope to be working as a "rubber dog" there, running with the bungee
cord to launch the SG-38 glider!

Easily amused,
Burt