Aviation history Part 5 (After the war - air traffic worldwide)

Despite the economic depression after World War II sought to establish an everywhere, with appreciation converted and bombers, an air traffic. The post is offered as an ideal load. The cards are easy and quick delivery of a message is also invaluable. The first national air transport route informed the German aviation shipping February 5, 1919 from Berlin to Weimar, the seat of the National Assembly, was served the first international route March 22, 1919 by the French Lignes Farman Aériennes between Paris and Brussels. Airlines that sprang up like mushrooms and disappeared again, Germany has more than thirty times. 1926 arose from the fusion of early stage, Germany's Lufthansa, now the National Society and was also an instrument of foreign policy. In other countries the process was similar.

Daredevil pilots developed with adventure flights over oceans, mountains and deserts more new air routes from which later became the highways of the global air transport. But the attempt to cross the Atlantic in twenty 19Piloten life. The first nonstop flight in 1919 led the British Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy bomber, Charles Lindbergh flew nonstop solo flight 20./21.Mai 1927 in New York to Paris, and in April 1928, Koehl and Fitzmaurice flew of Hunefeld Junkers W33 engine in a single east-west across the Atlantic.