#interflug

[bacony-cakes]

everyone's heard of pan am and trans world airlines and i have already seen things like these

but i made some more from other airlines i know

i also made an alternate biman bangladesh:

and interflug:

feel free to use all of these

(…and tell me if you know an airline that can fit in with this style, so i can make more)

[benkaden]

Ansichtskarte

DESSAU Im Lehrpark für Tier- und Pflanzenkunde.

Köthen: VEB Ansichtskartenverlag Köthen (P 1/73 IV-14-45 06 08 31 131)

1973

[malautomat]

WARTBURG 3️⃣5️⃣3️⃣

[monkeyssalad-blog]

Interflug luggage label by totallymystified Via Flickr: Interflug was East Germany's national airline from 1963 to 1990.

[nocternalrandomness]

Ilyushin IL-18D operated by German Airlines Interflug at Birmingham Airport, UK - April 1985

[aviaposter]

Ilyushin Il-18 Interflug

Registration: DDR-STE Type: Il-18V Engines: 4 × AI-20 Serial Number: 051-01 First flight: 1962

Interflug GmbH was the national airline of East Germany from 1963 to 1990. Based in East Berlin, it operated scheduled and chartered flights to European and intercontinental destinations out of its hub at Berlin Schönefeld Airport, focusing on Comecon countries. Following the German reunification, the company was liquidated. Over the 1960s, the airline saw a significant growth, concerning both its route network and fleet of Soviet-built aircraft. The Ilyushin Il-18 turboprop airliner became the backbone of Interflug's short haul flights during that period. Now Ilyushin Il-18 DDR-STE is an exhibit of the Hans Grade Museum, Borkheide, Germany.

Poster for Aviators. aviaposter.com

[airsllides]

airsLLide No. 5257: DDR-SET, Ilyushin 62M, Interflug, Berlin-Schönefeld, September 21, 1990.

On this September afternoon of 1990, the German Democratic Republic (abbreviated DDR in German), a.k.a. Eastern Germany, had only twelve days left before its peaceful unification with Western Germany, and thus the international country prefix 'DDR' in the jet's tail number would also soon be history. On October 3rd, the day of the unification, the classic jet would receive the West German registration D-AOAK.

Interflug, the flag carrier of Eastern Germany, had high hopes to continue trading from its base in Schönefeld and made plans to replace its Sovjet-built fleet with Western Airbus and Boeing aircraft. However, business was already very slow in the final days of the DDR, and little activity could be observed around the handful of Ilyushins and Tupolevs idling on the ramp.

Like with most businesses of former Eastern Germany, the stiff competition from West German service providers and producers quickly dwarfed any hopes for survival of East German companies. it was no different with Interflug - despite attempting to modernize with three A310-300s, it would fold and get liquidated as soon as by March 1991, just 5 months after the historic merger of the two Germanies.

[runwayrunway]

when germans think lufthansa nobody thinks ah yes the name the nazis gave to their airline, because the hansa name is a direct tie to something far older and that is far more suitably neutrally nationalist propaganda - Hansa. The Hanseatic League. The "earliest predecessor to the EU" and something that remains such a point of pride that formerly Hanseatic cities keep it in their name centuries after the Hanseatic league was wiped from all maps. Something that remains on modern city signs and even on car registration plates, like Hamburg giving up the single "H" to the smaller and far less important city of Hanover just so they can have their "HH" for Hansastadt Hamburg

With Lufthansa it's not so much the etymology that's the issue as the historical context. The name itself is entirely harmless but the original Deutsch Luft Hansa was a government apparatus which used forced labor of prisoners including children and was run by members of the Nazi party including several who had personal hands in war crimes. Today's Lufthansa is technically a different company but it was lead by many of the same people, most notably Deutsche Bank manager Kurt Weigelt, Luftwaffe Oberkommando Kurt Knipfer, and Luftwaffe chief of staff Werner Kreipe. This company was actually established with the name Luftag and then spent a significant amount of money to continue using the pre-war name and crane logo. (East Germany's flag carrier pre-Interflug also attempted to do this until Luftag/Lufthansa sued them into bankruptcy for it. To be clear, they also should not have done this, in my opinion.) They also seem to consider themselves to be the same company, if stating their founding date as 1926 is any indication. They've taken some downright bizarre actions when it comes to if they want to acknowledge this or not, including commissioning studies by historians and then suppressing their publication. Keeping the Luftag or Interflug name would not have changed this but the fact that they chose to continue branding themselves as Lufthansa definitely exacerbates it.

This is the unfortunate double reality in which German companies which keep the names of their Nazi-era counterparts are forced to operate. I'm sure somebody who knows more about cars than me could talk about Volkswagen or Porsche, which literally takes its name from an officer of the SS who produced weaponry for the war effort. Should they have outright changed their names? That's a bigger question than I can answer. I generally lean towards 'yes' in the same way I do for Chanel - the fact that a company is no longer literally owned by the same people it once was doesn't make the bitter pill that is branding itself with the name of someone who contributed to genocide much easier to swallow, and even more so with something inherently political like a flag carrier. Both Italy and Japan, for example, retired the brands of Ala Littoria and Imperial Japanese Airways. But there's obviously not a consensus here and I am just one person with one opinion. I find Chanel and Porsche to be far more inherently loaded than Lufthansa, but that doesn't mean there isn't a conversation to be had surrounding this topic, and people have been having that conversation for years.

This is, in all honesty, about the least of my political criticisms of the current Lufthansa. It's been the better part of a century and they are no longer literally abducting people to build their radar systems to the best of my knowledge, nor do they have any 150-year-old SS officers serving on their board. But they are still indisputably linked to Nazi Germany, which I expect they are pretty reluctant to lean into when discussing their history because if they did that would be terrible (and as far as I know of German law probably also illegal). Of the large airlines in the world this is a pretty uniquely Lufthansa baggage to deal with and it puts them in a pretty unfortunate spot a lot of the time, but as I was getting at in my post I do think there's a lot they could do that actually leans into German identity rather than being quarterlyreportcore without sticking Third Reich imagery on their planes but I can also understand why they may be hesitant to brand themselves in any way that isn't super sterile given that they have this history. It is just inherently harder to make being Lufthansa your brand than it is to make being the country that has really great glaciers your brand.

No, it's not the main thing that is associated with the name 'Lufthansa' and it shouldn't be. Yes, Lufthansa is a brand which was actively put forth by the Third Reich rather than just coincidentally existing at the same time and that is always going to be a nasty barnacle attached to the airline.

[csajokamotoron]

2024 November 29. és december 1. között Bad Salzuflent ismét az európai custom motorkerékpáros szcéna uralta. Több mint 21 000 látogató özönlött a kelet-vesztfáliai városba, hogy nehogy lemaradjon a kontinens legnagyobb átalakított motorkerékpár-vásáráról. Három kiállítóteremmel, több mint 23 000 négyzetméternyi kiállítási területtel, mintegy 186 nemzetközi kiállítóval és 252 látványos custom motorral Európa minden tájáról a CUSTOMBIKE show ismét mércét állított fel. Először rendeztek Bad Salzuflenben moped-építőversenyt. A vásár két napja alatt a Töffliheizer Ostfriesland és a V.E.B.-Design csapat izgalmas párharcot vívott egymással, amelyet a V.E.B-Design csapat egy drámai finálé után az "Interflug Schwalbe"-val szűken megnyert, és így a "Német Räng-Däng-DängBuild-Offok" első győzteseként vonult be a vásár történelemkönyvébe. A dolgok sokkal nagyobb méreteket öltöttek az European Biker Build-Off-on, ahol két egyedi motorkerékpárt építettek a közönség előtt egy nagy show-színpadon: Idén a németországi USM Motorcycles és a lengyel Vhard Motorworks csapatai vettek részt a vásár három napja alatt izgalmas csavarhúzó párbajban. Míg az USM egy új Indian Sport Scoutra épülő arany-piros versenymotort készített, addig a lengyel csapat egy igazán szép, régi vágású, matt fekete vonalvezetésű, valódi aranyszínű részletekkel díszített Harley-Davidson Softail-t választott. 48 szavazattal, nagyon szűk többséggel végül az USM nyerte meg a párbajt. A címet tehát immár harmadik éve egy Indianra épülő átalakítás nyerte! De még mindig nem voltak szomorú arcok Lengyelországban. A három nap alatt a csapatok összebarátkoztak, a tisztelet kölcsönös volt, egy olyan barátság kezdete a sok közül, amelyek ezen a kiállításon gyakran kezdődnek. A Custombike Európa-bajnokság döntője sem volt kevésbé izgalmas. Az Európa-bajnokság összdíjazása 12 000 euró, amelyből ötezer eurót a kiállítás legjobb motorja kap. Az Európa-bajnoki cím idén Angliába került. Vic Jefford és felesége, Lin nyerte meg a címet a zseniális "Platinum"-jukkal. Alig van olyan része a motorkerékpárnak, amely ne saját készítésű lenne, és olyan technikai finomságokkal nyűgöz le, mint a hátsó kerékagydobba épített akkumulátorok. A motorbemutató többi résztvevője és a customizerek is egyetértettek abban, hogy a házilag épített Harley V2-es teljesen megérdemelt győzelmet aratott. A CUSTOMBIKE kiállításon számos más kiemelkedő esemény is volt. A CUSTOMBIKE szavazás keretében megrendezett verseny szerencsés fődíjasa egy átalakított Royal Enfield Interceptort vehetett át. A nagyszínpadon rengeteg szívmelengető dolog történt. Három jótékonysági projekt gondoskodott érzelmes pillanatokról. Többek között Meik Reker patchwork kerékpárját mutatták be. Számos rajongó és cég adományozott alkatrészeket a Honda Shadowhoz, és a szerkezetet élőben sorsolták ki a vásáron 700 sorsjegyet vásárló között. A befolyt összeget a rákos gyermekek számára ajánlották fel. Hasonló célokat követett a Suzuki LS 650 alapjaira épített Starbridge bobber megépítése is. A "Hamburger Horda" által épített motorkerékpárt elárverezték, a 10 050 eurós bevételt a CUSTOMBIKE kiállításon a hamburgi Sternenbrücke-nek adták át. A "Fukker 2.0 projekt" építői is csatlakoztak a jócselekedetekhez. Nemcsak az ő rózsaszín Honda Bosozoku konstrukciójuk volt az egyik legtöbbet fotózott motorkerékpár a kiállításon, de a Honda eladásából származó bevételt is felajánlják. A kísérőprogramot széleskörű bemutatók egészítették ki, mint például a Wall of Death merész ördöglovaglás a meredek falon, ahol Jagath Perera és csapata lélegzetelállító produkciókkal kápráztatta el a közönséget. A vásár titkos sztárja azonban a 92 éves Schwalbe tervező, Erhard Werner volt. A "60 Years of Simson Schwalbe" című különleges kiállítás részeként anekdotákat osztott meg és számos autogramkérést teljesített. E kiemelt események mellett változatos színpadi programot is kínáltak: Jimmy Cornett lenyűgözött gitáron, a FUEL GIRLS lenyűgözött látványos tűzshow-jával, és a Kawasaki, a Custom Chrome Europe és a Thunderbike új átalakításai is felkeltették a figyelmet. A programot lenyűgöző karosszériafestési show, a berlini Clubstyle Culture bemutatója és izgalmas napi nyereményjátékok egészítették ki. Így már most várhatod a jövő évet, amikor a CUSTOMBIKE show a 20. évfordulóját ünnepli. A legjobb, ha már most bejegyzed a 2025-ös Custonbike Show dátumát a naptárba: 2025 november 28-30. A Custombike Európa-bajnokság győztesei 2024: - A legőrültebb motorkerékpár: Self-built with Suzuki GS 500 drive – Krystian Winzer from Poland - A legjobb moped: Innocenti Lambretta Li 150 – Christian Schneider from Germany - Az év újonca: Kawasaki LTD 440 – Annabel Weiß from Germany - A legjobb fényezés: Harley-Davidson Softail – Carsten Vogels from Germany - A legjobb Roadster: BMW R 100 RT – Wido Veldkamp from the Netherlands - A legjobb mérnöki munka: “Schwazuki” – Tobias Müller from Germany - A legjobb klub stílusú motor: Harley-Davidson FXR – Davy Lang from France - A legjobb sportmotor: Harley-Davidson Road Glide – Lucas Garage from Italy - A legjobb Fighter: Simson MS 50 – Oliver Baumgart from Germany - A legjobb Bobber: Harley-Davidson WLA – Grega Hocevar from Slovenia - A legjobb Chopper: Triumph/Yamaha XS 650 – Manuel Prinz from Germany - A legjobb Cafe Racer: BMW K 100 Aero – Sören Bläcker from Germany - A legjobb Oldschool: Harley-Davidson FL Knuckle – Niclas Roch from Switzerland - A legjobb Radical: Harley-Davidson Ironhead Sportster – Giacomo Galbiati from Italy - A show legjobbja: Homemade Harley-Davidson V2 – Vic Jefford from Great Britain Photo credit: Dirk Behlau Read the full article

[history-matters]

Every single person who has served in the First Presidency of the Mormon Church (LDS) since at least 1970 has had a book-length biography written about them, with the exception of Dieter Uchtdorf. Why? Because President of LDS is the highest ranking living Stasi in the United States. His official biography, which was written with approval of Russian, and some Central European friendly services, is forged, as well as his last name. There were two brothers behind the back of this former Lufthansa pilot, who also flew with Interflug. They were: Wolfgang Karl Adolf Uchtdorf - born on 7 April 1929, in Zwickau, Kreis Zwickau, Saxony, Germany. He married Irmgard Martha Luschtinetz on 7 May 1959, in Elko, Nevada, United States. He served as NCO in the US Army Corps of Engineers. He died on 17 May 1971, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in Murray Cemetery, Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. Karl-Heinz Uchtdorf - born on 29 January 1933, in Berlin, Germany. He worked for the LDS Church and built up and headed the European Distribution Center in Frankfurt, Germany in the 1970's. He died on 15 July 2005, in Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany, at the age of 72. Nonetheless, there was another Stasi (HVA)* man in the U.S., who oversaw Ivana Winklmayr, Arnold Schwarzenegger and even Dieter Uchtdorf himself in 70-90s.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 6.17 (after 1930)

1930 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law. 1932 – Bonus Army: Around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits. 1933 – Union Station massacre: In Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash. 1939 – Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is executed in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison. 1940 – World War II: RMS Lancastria is attacked and sunk by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France. At least 3,000 are killed in Britain's worst maritime disaster. 1940 – World War II: The British Army's 11th Hussars assault and take Fort Capuzzo in Libya, Africa from Italian forces. 1940 – The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union. 1944 – Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic. 1948 – United Airlines Flight 624, a Douglas DC-6, crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board. 1952 – Guatemala passes Decree 900, ordering the redistribution of uncultivated land. 1953 – Cold War: East Germany Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion. 1958 – The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and North Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing 18 ironworkers and injuring others. 1960 – The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 million acres (28,000 km2) of land undervalued at four cents/acre in the 1863 treaty. 1963 – The United States Supreme Court rules 8–1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against requiring the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools. 1963 – A day after South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm announced the Joint Communiqué to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2,000 people breaks out. One person is killed. 1967 – Nuclear weapons testing: China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon. 1971 – U.S. President Richard Nixon in a televised press conference called drug abuse "America's public enemy number one", starting the War on drugs. 1972 – Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee during an attempt by members of the administration of President Richard M. Nixon to illegally wiretap the political opposition as part of a broader campaign to subvert the democratic process. 1985 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-G mission: Space Shuttle Discovery launches carrying Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a payload specialist. 1987 – With the death of the last individual of the species, the dusky seaside sparrow becomes extinct. 1989 – Interflug Flight 102 crashes during a rejected takeoff from Berlin Schönefeld Airport, killing 21 people. 1991 – Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth. 1992 – A "joint understanding" agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II). 1994 – Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O. J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. 2015 – Nine people are killed in a mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. 2017 – A series of wildfires in central Portugal kill at least 64 people and injure 204 others. 2021 – Juneteenth National Independence Day, was signed into law by President Joe Biden, to become the first federal holiday established since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983.

[mrunterstrichtom]

donnerstag, 13. april ‘23, 22.39 uhr

interflug

bei den hundert d-mark begrüßungsgeld für ihre östlichen brüder und schwestern existierte noch die nationale volksarmee und ‘ne nachricht die berliner mauer fällt ist in der stadt schon schnee von gestern wie wenige monate danach auch ‘ne sed mig neunundzwanzig - jahrzehnte später für neue östliche brüder und schwestern einst bestand der nationalen volksarmee jetzt bloß formsache für schreibtischtäter wer würde nach der enthauptung lästern fragen war nicht hilfreich, was ich da seh‘ und bald werden polnische ‘vögel‘ fliegen über gebiete mit brüdern von schwestern ohne piloten einer nationalen volksarmee ‘n präsident verkündet man werde siegen noch ein weit'res mal schnee von gestern am tefefon dankt er ‘nem kanzler ‘ner brd

[benkaden]

Beleg

INTERFLUG Neue Passagierabfertigung Flughafen Berlin-Schönefeld 1.6.1976

INTERFLUG  Abteilung Werbung DDR - 1189 Berlin-Schönefeld Flughafen

[bremsnitzer]

[monkeyssalad-blog]

Interflug luggage label by totallymystified Via Flickr: Interflug was East Germany's national airline from 1963 to 1990.

[ddr-reklame]

Die staatliche Fluggesellschaft Interflug wurde am 18. September 1958 als Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung gegründet. . Ziel war vorrangig die Durchführung von Bedarfsluftverkehr im Charterflug. Damit entstand neben der Deutschen Lufthansa der DDR – die vorrangig Linienverkehr betrieb – eine zweite Fluggesellschaft in der DDR. Die Schaffung dieser Luftfahrtgesellschaft war durch die damals herrschenden politischen Verhältnisse, vor allem durch die sowohl politisch als auch wirtschaftlich geführte Auseinandersetzung mit der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, begründet. . Schwerpunkt war in den Anfangsjahren der Flugverkehr zur zweimal jährlich stattfindenden Leipziger Messe. Da die Interflug nicht über eigenes Fluggerät verfügte, wurden Maschinen der ostdeutschen Lufthansa genutzt. Anfänglich änderte man Bemalung und Beschriftung, später versah man die Maschinen nur noch mit einem zusätzlichen Unternehmenslogo. . Anfang der 1960er Jahre verschärfte sich die Auseinandersetzung über die Nutzung des Namens „Lufthansa“ zwischen den beiden namensgleichen Fluggesellschaften der Bundesrepublik und der DDR. Ein von der Deutschen Lufthansa vor dem Höheren Wirtschaftsgericht der jugoslawisch-serbischen Teilrepublik in Belgrad angestrengter Prozess wurde im September 1963 ausgesetzt, nachdem der DDR-Verkehrsminister Erwin Kramer vorgeschlagen hatte, die Deutsche Lufthansa der DDR zu liquidieren. Flugzeuge, Flugplätze und Streckenrechte der ostdeutschen Lufthansa gingen an die Interflug über, die damit auch den Linienflugverkehr übernahm und damit einzige Fluggesellschaft der DDR wurde. (via #Wikipedia) . #Flugzeug #Fluglinie #Fluggesellschaft #Landebahn #Landung #landingstrip #runway #airport #airline #Interflug #IF #Reise #Flüge #Flug #traveling #DDR #GDR #Ostalgie #EastGermany https://www.instagram.com/p/Bpw8AHDBA12/?igshid=1bxj02i9ks8xb