- Title: Russian city marks 100 year anniversary of first passenger flight over Europe
- Date: 19th August 2019
- Summary: KALININGRAD, RUSSIA (AUGUST 17, 2019) (REUTERS) SWISS LIGHT AIRPLANE TAKING OFF IN AIR, RUSSIA (AUGUST 17, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS AERIAL SHOTS OF AIRPLANE FLYING OVER KALININGRAD AND BALTIC SEA KALININGRAD, RUSSIA (AUGUST 17, 2019) (REUTERS) PLANE LANDING VARIOUS OF LIGHT AIRPLANES ON AIRFIELD KALININGRAD, RUSSIA (AUGUST 18, 2019) (REUTERS) AIRPLANE PILOT AND CO-PILOT PREPARING PLANE FOR FLIGHT PEOPLE WATCHING AND TAKING PHOTOS OF PLANES LIGHT AIRPLANE FLYING VARIOUS OF PEOPLE HELPING TO PARK AIRPLANE VARIOUS OF PLANE TAKING OFF VARIOUS OF LIGHT AIRPLANE OWNER WOLFGANG ERBEN MEASURING AVIATION GAS LEVEL IN HIS PLANE (SOUNDBITE) (English) LIGHT AIRPLANE OWNER FROM GERMANY, WOLFGANG ERBEN, SAYING (STARTS OVER ERBEN POURING GAS INTO GAS TANK): "Yes, it's a special smell. And also this Mooney (airplane) is very famous for this tank, because there's not a special tank inside the wing, the wing itself is the tank. So this sheet of metal is just a surrounding (coating) for the tank." PEOPLE WITH PARACHUTES ON AIRFIELD SPECTATORS WALKING VARIOUS OF CHILDREN POSING FOR PHOTOS INSIDE AIRPLANES AND WITH PILOTS, PARENTS TAKING PHOTOS VARIOUS OF WOMAN HELPING LIGHT PLANE TO TAKE OFF VARIOUS OF LIGHT AIRPLANE PERFORMING STUNTS IN AIR (SOUNDBITE) (English) PILOT AND LIGHT AIRPLANE OWNER FROM GERMANY, DETLEV KELLINGHUSEN, SAYING: "It's a very slow airplane, yes. But I think that the travel is the target. You have to travel and that is the target. I don't want to have speed. When I need speed, I take an airliner." KELLINGHUSEN STARTING ENGINE OF HIS AIRPLANE AIRPLANE MOVING ON AIRFIELD VARIOUS OF OLD BUILDING OF DEVAU AIRFIELD VARIOUS OF OLD ABANDONED AIRPLANE ON AIRFIELD
- Embargoed: 2nd September 2019 19:07
- Keywords: light airplanes pilot air show Devau airfiled anniversary air stunts Baltic sea Kaliningrad light aircraft airshow Devau airfield
- Location: KALININGRAD, RUSSIA
- City: KALININGRAD, RUSSIA
- Country: Russia
- Topics: Arts / Culture / Entertainment
- Reuters ID: LVA001ASVVWBD
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: The Russian Baltic city of Kaliningrad marked the 100-year anniversary of the first passenger flight over Europe on Sunday (August 18) with an airshow featuring about 50 light airplanes from all over the EU.
Pilots and airplane owners from Germany, Sweden, Poland, Switzerland and many others gathered at Devau - the oldest airfield in Europe - to show off their skills and exchange stories.
The first European passenger flight which opened the civil airway from Berlin to Königsberg (now Kaliningrad), landed on Devau airfield in 1919.
For some pilots the trips from their home cities were lengthy. Detlev Kellinghusen, who worked as a pilot at Lufthansa for 40 years, flew for 5.5 hours, with a tail wind, from his home in Aschaffenburg but he said the 1,300 kilometres (800 miles) flight was about the journey, not the speed.
"It's a very slow airplane, yes. But I think that the travel is the target. You have to travel and that is the target. I don't want to have speed. When I need speed, I take an airliner," he said.
Some aviators performed stunts in air and allowed the public to take photos beside and even inside their aircraft.
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