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1962
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FLIGHT International, 3 May 1962 683 Luftfahrtschau Hanover GERMANY'S BIG SHOW OPENS Illustrated mainly with "Flight International" photographs Hanover, Sunday T HE show is on once again, and now it has come of age. For the first time the German industry is contributing new aircraft, space vehicles, helicopters, light aircraft and a good deal of equipment. Non-German companies, too, are there in greater strength than ever, with bigger and faster aircraft than two years ago, and with more equipment. While many more American, British and French companies have made a point of bringing their latest and best, the keynote of the show is perhaps the emergence of the wide variety of indigenous German projects, accompanied by a fair selection of noteworthy light aircraft. The weather, as we have come to expect, started rough and showery, with a biting wind which discouraged any lengthy sorties by early visitors into the orderly aircraft and helicopter parks. But Dr Strauss, the German Defence Minister, formally opened the show on Saturday afternoon and spent several hours both on Saturday and Sunday touring the exhibits. By Sunday morning the usual helter-skelter of demonstration flying was getting under way, one of the first to fly being a prototype Umbaugh Flymobil U-18. By the time these words appear the regular demonstration pilots will have got the hang of the procedure and the tower controllers will know them too. Then the sky will be full of all manner of aerodynes demonstrating, as well as airliners plying their normal trade. By Sunday only two of the three taxiways had been brought into use as runways. Flight International took its brand-new Airedale, G-ARXD delivered the day before, to Hanover and back to obtain the information and pictures for this preliminary account. The aircraft behaved impeccably. Being the first Airedale to reach the show it was put on exhibition in the aircraft park. The aircraft already at Hanover on Sunday—and there were Aircraft park and exhibition halls at Hanover Langenhagen airfield
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