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.