LIKE A BEEHIVE

Evening Star, Issue 19994, 11 October 1928, Page 5

LIKE A BEEHIVE

BERLIN’S BUSY AIRPORT HEAVY PRESS OF TRAFFIC. Tins summer twenty-two passenger aeroplanes of the regular Lint Hansa. air service laud, and the same number start, daily in all directions_ at the Berlin airport. The day beghis with tho departure of the “ Adria Express,” which leaves at 0.30 a.m., _ reaching Romo on the same afternoon via Vicuna and Venice. The first section to Vienna is flown by the magnificent and luxurious fifteen-passenger Junkers aeroplane in a non-stop flight. It has regular compartments, a kitchen, ami a radio cabin. The ordinary Vienna, aeroplane follows, and at intervals afterward tho aeroplane for Leningrad and the “ Munich Express.” By this time, tho first arrivals from near-by towns take place. Within half an hour six aeroplanes land from such cities as Leipzic, Marionbad, Dresden, and Breslau. They havo scarcely been removed from the quay when several largo aeroplanes take off. One is the “ London Express, leaving for the British capita! via Amsterdam; others are the aeroplane to Cologne, with connections with London via Brussels, and the liners for Stockholm, Paris, Stuttgart, Geneva, Marseilles, .Barcelona, and Madrid. Tho last passenger aeroplane to leave tho ground is tho night plane to Moscow departing at 11 o’clock and reaching tiie Soviet Russian capital on the next afternoon, its passengers can sleep in comfortable berths until they reach Konigsberg tho next morning after a non-stop flight. As soon as the passenger service is over the freight service commences. At 2 a.m. the freight aeroplane for Cologne loaves where it has freight aeroplane connections to London and Paris. During the whole day, moreover, countless aeroplanes leave and arrive with newspapers and many round-trips are also made. Thus scarcely ten minutes elapse during which some aeroplane is not up in tho air at Teraplehof, and to spend an hour at Berlin’s airport is a thrilling experience. Sometimes so many machines will ha on tho spacious quay that a new arrival must wait outside on the field before he can roll up to tho space reserved for disembarking.

The unusual part about Germany’s air service-is that it does not concentrate in the capital, as in many other countries. Cologne has ■'■nineteen departures and arrivals, Frankfort seventeen, Essen and Hanover sixteen each, and Munich fifteen.