In the context of probing for unexploded ammunition on the grounds of the former Air Base, it has been suggested that our association headquarters may be located on top of bomb craters filled with WW II ordnance or, even worse, with unexploded bombs stuck in the ground.
That is why it is highly likely that we shall have had to vacate the building by the end of 2020. How things will turn out afterwards is anybody`s guess.
For more information turn to a more detailed status report and an article from the local newspaper (NWZ).
(Status report)
In cold but quite sunny weather a number of members of the Traditionsgemeinschaft set out for their annual tour of street bowling across the site of the air base.
Along the way, a refreshment stand served punch and coffee plus bread and dripping.
As usual, the traditional kale banquet was held at Köhnke’s Inn in Metjendorf.
Pictures can be found in image gallery #1.
On the following link you can see a video-dokumentation about the Alpha Jet.
In page Video 29 you can see an older video of FBW 49 Fürstenfeldbruck with the Alpha Jet.
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Your Helmut Friz
Die aktuelle Ausgabe von “OLDY Aktuell” finden Sie hier als PDF:
OLDY Aktuell 3/2019(hier)
The City of Oldenburg, as the owner of the air base following safety regulations, has authorized a construction company to tear down a number of buildings. The first building to be singled out for demolition was the house erected by the British in the grove just beyond the main guardhouse for commanding officers; it was popularly known as “Villa Wehnelt”, named after the first commander of former German Flight Training School 10. The western shanty camp and the Royal Air Force’s former NAAFI building, also known to veterans as the red-light establishment “Landeklappe”, and non-commissioned and commissioned officers’ residence building #48 have followed. Our page image gallery 9 “Tear down of buildings” documents the demolition of buildings.
A day trip to Bremerhaven met with great response. Following a hearty lunch at “Letzte Kneipe vor N.Y.” (“The last pub outside N.Y.”), the schedule called for a two-hour harbour cruise, passing Columbus Quay with two cruise ships moored there and subsequently the container terminal stretching for more than 2 km where there was a chance of observing the loading, unloading and berthing of container vessels. Not to be disregarded: the seals dozing in the sun on the sand bar.
Enjoy a short fly-by and klick the following links.
More to come
After an 18-year odyssey through Fürstenfeldbruck, Schleswig/Jagel and Jever, Alpha Jet 40+44, the “Gaudy Bird” of the Air Wing Jubilee in 1984, has returned home.
With conservation work done and having been given a new paint job at the Jever Air Force Maintenance Unit, it was taken to Oldenburg by a low-bed truck where it has been re-assembled by a dedicated team of members of the Traditionsgemeinschaft, headed by Hans Laufersweiler, the “grey one”, and given what is hoped to be its permanent place in front of our association and exhibition building.
Find more in image gallery 6.
Meaning to reduce our stock of exhibits ahead of the relocation to the former medical building, we have begun to part from a number of exhibits because the new premises are – at least partially – too limited in space.
A team from the Luftwaffenmuseum (Air Force Museum) in Berlin-Gatow paid us a visit and left taking the 1:3-scale models of the G.91 and the Alpha Jet as well as the ejector seat of the MiG 29 with them. In addition, Dieter Urban has packed up the 1:5-scale model of the F-86 Sabre, which we had on loan at the old place, planning to make it fit to fly again.
