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Militärflugplatz Dübendorf is a military airfield northeast of Dübendorf in Switzerland, located east of Zürich. ==History== The search for a suitable site for an airfield started in 1909. On 1 August 1910 geography improvement of the swamp started and on 22 October 1910 the first airshow was held on the Airfield Dübendorf. Since 1914 Dübendorf has been used as an air base by the Swiss Air Force. From 1919 on Dübendorf was also an airport for civil airlines, first for the predecessor of the Swissair, the Ad Astra Aero, and from 1932 on for Swissair. During World War II there was virtually no civil flight activity. Aircraft used from Ad Astra Aero and Swissair from Dübendorf include: * Fokker F.VII * Messerschmitt M18 * Comte AC-4 * Lockheed L-9 Orion * Clark G.A. 43 * Curtiss AT-32C Condor II * Douglas DC-2 * Junkers Ju 86 Z * De Havilland Mosquito * Douglas DC-3 * Douglas DC-4 During World War II any foreign military aircraft that was interned by Switzerland was held at Dübendorf, including about 120 US B-17s and B-24s, together with one German Me 262. From 1943 Switzerland shot down American and British aircraft, mainly bombers, overflying Switzerland during World War II: six aircraft by Swiss Air Force fighters and nine by anti-aircraft cannons; 36 American and british airmen were killed. Besides, there were 137 emergency landings to May 1945 resulting in about 120 US aircraft that were interned at the Dübendorf airfield. The officers were interned in Davos, airmen in Adelboden. Although US military attaché Barnwell Legge instructed the soldiers not to flee, many soldiers ignored his warning; after their escape from the internment camps, the airmen usually were detained in the Wauwilermoos penal camp near Luzern. Repaired by USAF technicians, on 7 September 1945 around 60 US aircraft started from Dübendorf to return to their bases,〔 where they were scrapped. The Swiss Air Force used in this time Me-109E, Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 and so on. After World War II civil aviation moved to the 1948 build civil airport Zurich Airport and Dübendorf became a purely military airfield. During the Cold War, Dübendorf was the home of Aérospatiale Alouette II and Aérospatiale Alouette III helicopters and jets such as the de Havilland Vampire, de Havilland Venom, Hawker Hunter, Dassault Mirage III and Northrop F-5 Tiger II. Also, the Swiss-built fighter jet FFA P-16 took off from Dübendorf for its first supersonic flight. Dübendorf was the home base for the Patrouille Suisse until they moved to Emmen AFB. With the move of Fightersqadron 11 Tigers with the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet to Meiringen AFB in 2005 the history of fighter aircraft in Dübendorf ended. The air base was, at both end of the runway, equipped with retractable Arresting gear devices (used by the F/A-18 and in case of a problem by the F-5). This was arresting gear was removed after 2005. On 26 June 2009, the long-range experimental solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse 1 was first presented to the public at the Dübendorf Air Base. Following taxi testing, a short-hop test flight was made on 3 December 2009, piloted by Markus Scherdel. In August 2013, after setting several records including a cross-US flight, the aircraft returned to Dübendorf to be placed in storage. On 22 September 2015 the Airbus A310 Zero-G reduced gravity aircraft flew from Dübendorf Air Base, in the first operational flight of a Zero-G Airbus outside of France. It is planned to continue using Dübendorf for these flights.〔(Own vomit comet: Swiss make first zero-G flight ) RT.com (retrieved ~~~~~)〕〔(Airbus A310 ZERO-G aircraft to log weightless flight from Switzerland airport ) Intelligent Aerospace (retrieved ~~~~~)〕〔http://www.nzz.ch/zuerich/von-duebendorf-in-die-schwerelosigkeit-1.18617556〕〔http://www.zol.ch/bezirk-uster/duebendorf/schwerelos-ueber-duebendorf/story/26479258〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dübendorf Air Base」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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