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Its nice to find an airport that has put aircraft with local conections on display. On the terminal roof you’ll find these two in their own hall and a VFW 614 outside on the terrace.
The Junkers was the first aeroplane to fly the Atlantic East /West and to my mind has been over restored – surely no Junkers left the factory that shiney.
The local Airbus (Focke Wulf) plant has a gutted VAK 191 on dispaly (away from public eyes). in one of the older buildings they are restoring another product from the plant – a FW 200 Condor. All I saw yesterday was two cylinders from one of the engines. But I’m arranging a visit the next time I have a meeting there.:D
By: Arabella-Cox - 11th March 2008 at 20:05
A couple of years ago a BMW VI engine was found at Bremen airport during construction work. Needless to say the engine is a little tatty after being buried for some sixty years The initial idea was to display the relic in the same hall as the aircraft but such a mess of an engine would have looked seriously out of place next to these shiny and gleaming aircraft, so the engine was eventually stored in a workshop.
It is a BMW VI series 6 and I would date it from 1930-33. It has a BMW carburettor and my guess it that it came from an Arado Ar 65 biplane. There are three bullet-holes in the right cylinder-row and there are traces of a fire. This engine will no doubt never fly again but the pieces that we have removed so far are internally in an exceptionally good condition like the oil-pump. Apparently the engine was disposed off because of the damage and not because it was worn-out. Besides it is surprising to find such an old engine with battle-damage from WWII. A few Arado 65s were used as night-fighters; perhaps this engine came from one of them.
Thank goodness the airport management were not desperate to keep the engine so when I approached them asking them if I could have it we came to an agreement very quickly.
Regards, Peter
By: JägerMarty - 7th March 2008 at 07:29
Bremen’s a great little airport, loads of aviation history there too:cool:
By: Mondariz - 7th March 2008 at 06:56
Yes, its nice to see some history in the terminal.
Copenhagen airport have two fake (one might have been removed) aircraft. One is a playground thing and the other is some kind of homemade ½ size Fokker Dr.1. Nothing else tells you, that you are in an airport. No “Skybar, or “Aviators lounge”, not even a few old pictures. Its a shame i think, as I like to get that airport feeling, when i’m waiting for a flight.
In some modern airports, they seem to have gone out of their way, to distence themselves from aviation (decor wise). Maybe its to ease the nerves of nervous flyers.
If I ran an airport, you wouldn’t be able to move for aviation paraphenelia. Maybe just as well I don’t.
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March 6, 2008 at 8:56 pm