Fliegerkunst (Germany 1926)
On 8th September 1926 the newly founded flying company Lufthansa organized a flying day on
the Berlin airport Tempelhoferfeld that attracted over 200.000 people.At the opening ceremony 3.500 pigeons had been released. One of the main events was the performance of Ernst Udet (see my previous post).
This episode of the german weekly news bulletin "Deulig Woche"shows this particular event..
On wath is called "a great day for german air sport" we see Ernst Udet arive in his newly developted U12 flamingo,a dare-devil hanging under a balloon and planes flying in formation and U12's doing air acrobatics.