Berliner Funkausstellung camera: Pahl's largest warship in the world in Wilhelmshaven camera: fire flooding in Austria origin: Austria kite flying in Sussex origin: COI at the beginning and end of total length
This entertainment - radio exhibition Berlin Alexis Korner was one of the greats of show who had come to Berlin to coordinate industry and audience on the world's largest Festival of entertainment electronics. Information of the dealer and the consumer: for this purpose, exhibitors from 23 countries had built up the best what the international radio and television industry has to offer. The year's trend: No cataclysmic changes but technical refinements and new trends.
The elderly are often also the new - like the company of Brown, the now 20-year-old design of which has affected the consumer electronics of around the world.
High-performance campaigns the receiver "Directed by 450" to shoppers. The compact device boasts high sensitivity and selectivity. 2 pairs of speakers and headphones can be connected. Brown first stereo tape recorder in hi-fi quality blends into the line of the House. Front operation with separate level control instruments. A new compact box - the smallest on the market, completes the Hi-Fi offer.
Grundig - pioneer of the modular system - has refined this technique. The plug-in function groups, which bring together up to 100 individual elements such as transistors and circuits, can be replaced with a handle. The new colour are already 75 %aus modular parts. The new infrared hearing set offers more comfort. Light waves replace the connection cable to the headphones. By simply pressing a button, the time can be queried from the built-in quartz clock.
Colored television entertainment regardless of airtime and programme offer video recorder - the OPTICORD 700 color, for example, which records the a show, while the other, the run time of a cassette: up to 60 minutes.
The time for the recording of a program is set by the 24-hour clock.
An attractive television affected the sales of the device industry. The higher the information and recreational value of the screen, the better the industry economy. In Berlin, the exhibitors showed cautious optimism. Still, the Farbfernsehgeräte market is saturated only 30%. An appealing program - so they speculate - could make the hesitant consumers to redeem a portion of his savings account against a piece of highly bred consumer electronics.
This technique: - sohwimmendes monster has the largest warship in the world either guns or cannons, one week was the American aircraft carrier 'Nimitz' eye-catcher for maritim interested citizens. The monster made of steel. Electronics and uranium attracted also the political prominence: Defense Minister Leber visited the carrier as well as later NATO Secretary General LUNs. In the Interior of the vessel, liver had to explain what it has with the prowess of the aircraft carrier on which. Suspicious Americans allowed tour together with details of only a few hundred selected German citizens: the caution from possible acts of sabotage is first sailor duty aboard the nuclear-powered and nuclear-armed ship.
There was a war machine with Super specs on roadstead Wilhelmshaven. Powered by two nuclear reactors, which can ' Nimitz' 13 years of non-stop over the oceans tick - 70 km/h. In the hangar and on the upper deck, which is as big as 3 football fields, around 100 aircraft - mostly bomber, Tagdflugzeuge and submarine Hunter Park.
6,200 man live on the 'Nimitz', which has cost around DM 1.5 billion without military equipment. Made only in service 4 months ago, now makes their inaugural visit to the Western allies.
The aircraft carrier the size of a skyscraper laid on its side some 200,000 onlookers attracted, including several thousand from South Germany. This disaster - rain alarm in Austria so it looked this summer only inÖsterreich. While all over Europe for months under a heat Bell, the Alpine Republic threatened at times to drown in a flood of water. Austria, favorite holiday destination of the Germans, was struck by the worst floods for 20 years. What erupted in peaceful season over Austria, could according to meteorologists soon with us repeating - when the first heavy autumn storms blow: thousands from one hour to another homeless, Viole barely out of the peninsula houses highly visible damage saved. Rivers came so fast their banks, that some housewife was surprised by the water during the daily shopping.
Fitness and human solidarity helped until were police, fire, and the Austrian Federal Army in a disaster zone. First task here as in the Danube River town Pöchlarn: to secure the endangered sections with sand bags. The rains stopped. Only days after the start of the disaster were the rivers in ever new places overflow their banks. The fire was already preparing, to block even the Reichsbrücke in Vienna for the traffic. Here, the Danube River reached a level of 7 metres and 60. In some villages of the Danube, the inhabitants on the stability of their old houses had to trust because the helpers with the boats on the evacuation of so many people were not prepared. When the water level of the Danube had risen to nearly 8 meters, the rains left after. In the cities of the Danube, the river Stadtbezirk were days under water. Now changed the high water flood into a tourist attraction. From the remaining untouched parts of the country, Austrians arrived to visit the flood and its consequences. The children in the disaster zone took advantage of the flood - as all the children - do it for summer water fun. Now the British the most beautiful form of flying have discovered these sports - floating Dragon after the continental Europeans. On a hill in the County of Sussex around 100 Dragon flight enthusiasts practiced both sexes the first jumps - with helmet and in the combat suit.
In the gently rolling hills, it was hard some flight trainee to gain the necessary height. Others searched for the correct position of the maneuvering during the flight.
The gusty wind allowed no risky maneuvers. Already the British dragons flight avant-gardists had set modest goals: In the target flight - and whether it is one meter above the ground - a marker in the Valley to control. A trapezoid linkage serves as a control stick. With which you can draw the dragon to the left or right and up or down.
The accident-free Dragon flight premiere gave strong impetus to some ambitious people. In the autumn – so they announced - they want to cross the English channel with her Dragon. Now you are looking for in England after a high mountain - so far in vain.
