At this year’s Girls’Day, six schoolgirls came to the Fliegerwerkstatt to gain their first experience in a wood workshop.
All of them easily managed to build their workpiece in the given time and were also able to socialise with the other young people over lunch.
Five young people from the Jugendbauhütte have been coming to the Fliegerwerkstatt with their instructor since mid-February. Together with the participants in our temporary learning group, they are building sturdy carpentry benches. A great opportunity to bring young people together and let them learn from each other.
The Jugendbauhütte is a project of the German Foundation for Monument Protection and enables young people to do a voluntary social year in monument conservation after leaving school.
And this is what the finished carpentry trestles look like, assembled without screws or glue:
We are celebrating 10 years of Fliegerwerkstatt at Tempelhof Airport! A special milestone that continues to inspire us!
Ten years ago, we signed the lease and launched the Fliegerwerkstatt.
Our mission of a social return on investment that we can all achieve together to support young people has succeeded. The many supporters, donors and sponsors, our partners, the volunteers and the Fliegerwerkstatt team have made this possible.
We are infinitely grateful for all your support and trust and wish everyone
a peaceful and happy Christmas and a good start to the New Year!
The new school year has begun, we welcome many new young people and do everything we can to ensure that they settle in quickly and feel at home.
The young people from our cooperation project ‘Practical experience and basic professional qualification for young refugees’ – 84 young people from seven school classes – each have a whole week in the Fliegerwerkstatt to get to know each other and us, to make their first products from wood and to try out tools and machines.
The first day begins with a specially built team game, then the first toolboxes and stools are made.
By the end of the week, the young people are already working together on larger projects and orders of the Fliegerwerkstatt: Building a round table tennis table for TURBULENCE Berlin, two boxes of sports equipment for the Anna-Lindh-Schule, three benches for the schoolyard of the Carl-von-Ossietzky-Gymnasium, a raised bed for the Westfeldgarten on Tempelhofer Feld and dismantling the Luftschloss at the Atze Musik Theater.
Cooking and having lunch together is an integral part of everyday workshop life. And anyone who wants to can also take a spin in our Boeing737 flight simulator or fulfil their own wish – for example, like two students from the OSZ KIM who are building a coffee table for their home.
The new school year has also begun for the welcome class at the Albert Schweitzer Gymnasium. One day a week is scheduled for the 18 young people as a practical day in the Fliegerwerkstatt.
After their first introductory projects, the young people are quickly involved in ongoing projects or realise their own ideas.
The enthusiasm for wood and metal projects has also spread to other young people at school. As a result, the number of participants in the Albert Schweitzer Gymnasium’s Fliegerwerkstatt work group, which was set up last school year, is also increasing.
To mark the 100th anniversary of Tempelhof Airport, we reconstructed the first temporary construction hut at the then new airport for the hangar of the German Museum of Technology. With the support of Günter Hujer, we were able to recreate the hut true to the original.
For the Atze Musiktheater, our young people built platforms for the food and ticket office areas. In addition, 16 meters of water pipes had to be covered, creating practical benches.
The Atze Musiktheater’s program can be seen throughout the summer at the Luftschloss on Tempelhofer Feld.
For the community garden Rübezahl e.V. two wooden horses designed by MEYLENSTEIN were built by the young people of the Fliegerwerkstatt. With helpers from the association as well as from the neighborhood Schillerpromenade, the two wooden horses were set up in the garden on Tempelhofer Feld and can now be used by families with children to play.
With the CNC milling machine, Arthur went into detail and installed missing programs and suction technology. This allowed the horse heads to be milled exactly to design specifications.
For this year’s Fliegerwerkstatt travel, we went to nearby Werneuchen in Brandenburg. Because this time the just finished wooden canoe was launched for the first time! Eleven young people and our Fliegerwerkstatt team took advantage of the secluded spot at Tiefensee for paddling, swimming and small excursions into the surrounding area.
How does an engine work? What parts does it have and how is it constructed? To take a look inside, we make a cutaway model from the original T 53 helicopter engine.
To do this, all assemblies and parts are disassembled, cut out at predetermined points and then reassembled. This is the plan of Günter Hujer, who himself once worked on precisely this type of engine during his professional training.
In small groups, the young people are currently busy disassembling and labeling the parts.
Our young people from the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium built mobile kitchen modules for our neighbour Hangar1. There were certain requirements for the dinner-thek, but there was still enough leeway in the design to allow the young people’s ideas to flow in.
With our electric mobile, express delivery was also possible.
We hope you enjoy the cooking, eating and cultural exchange! A project idea initiated and financed by the Ruck Foundation.