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++++ ALERT - FACTUAL ERROR AT 3:50 mins - In the text "20,000 Kampfflugzeuge" both the number and 'Kampfflugzeuge' are inaccurate. Please substitute simply 'Tausende Flugzeuge'. ++++
Many thanks to a Canadian-based historian who pointed this out for me.

This is the German version of my visual podcast about the history of Gander Airport, Newfoundland, Canada.

You can activate subtitles in English and German by clicking in the lower right. There is also an English version, look for the links in the video.

This presentation is inspired by a fascinating ZDF documentary I saw on Curiosity Stream. Then I discovered the German version on YouTube.
The documentary called ‘Der Flughafen am Ende der Welt’ - 'the airport at the end of the world', or in better English, ‘the airport in the middle of nowhere’ and it was directed by Roland May.

I found the story compelling, because it deals with changing times in the aviation industry and the Cold War. There is a link between East Germany and Canada that I wasn't aware of.
I wanted to tell the story in my own words, in English and in German. I wrote the script in German and then produced an English version.
And in the story we learn how an East German couple on their way back home from Cuba, got off the Interflug plane in Gander, entered the departure lounge and never returned to the plane or their homeland.


CREDITS:



Cover photos
Satellite photo of Gander Airport - NASA World Wind / Public domain

Interflug IL62 Maarten Visser
Capelle aan den IJssel, Nederland / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)

from freesound.org
27583 Genghis Attenborough - Canada Geese
67884 Benboncan Lake Waves 2
83325 Figowitz DC3 taxiing outside
110737 Doubletrigger Super Constellation flypast

Boeing 707 courtesy of cargospotter.com (YouTube)

YouTube Audio Library
Doug Maxwell - Breathing Planet
HanuDixit - Distant Lands
JesseGallagher - The Anunnaki Return
Quincas Moreira - Dance of the U boat
Tracktribe - Tall Tale


Final recording of a Boeing 737-800 landing at Manchester Airport by Aidan O'Rourke.