Lufthansa German Airline's History since 1919 (ENGLISH)

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Please email me, if you need further information Offered is "The Lufthansa Story" Lufthansa German Airline's History since 1919 (English Language, 138 pages, many old photographs) ***** Ten years after World War II, in 1955, a reborn Lufthansa was admitted back into the community of international airlines. A few weeks later, the first piston-engined aircraft were back on the North Atlantic run, the prestige route of international aviation. A quarter century later. Lufthansa is among the world's major air carriers, and its fleet of more than 90 (mostly US-American) jets is among the most modern, most economical and most "environment friendly". The people who put together the prop-age Lufthansa still had links with the legendary successes in the 1920s and 30s, the company had set aviation standards both in Europe and with its first routes to other continents. The drama of those early years, with night flights and mail runs, and the first alpine crossings, has given way to new problems: the energy crisis, rising costs in all aereas and growing political impacts in international air traffic. This chronicle up to the year 1980 documents the Lufthansa story since 1919, the year the first aircraft of one of Lufthansa's predecessors took off bearing the now famous crane logo. The story of those years of experimental and pioneering read more

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