My July Wanderings pt.2 Speyer Museum

Thanks again lads….
Have to say i never even noticed the slides on the 614 and lump!!! missed opportunity!!!:( (mind you…. it’s a loooong way down from that lump!!:eek:)
A two day visit would be best to do both Speyer and Sinsheim.. certainly you could easily spend an entire day at Speyer..there is so much more to it than what i shot in a hasty visit.

I also did both museums a few years ago and i can say they are brilliant ! The silver tubes are slides out of the airframes,you go down on basically sack bags,there is even one out of the Lufty Lump if you dare !!!

im going in this week ha haaaar. going to visit relatives in Austria by car and plan to stop at the museum on the way back through..hoooorah

Was just reading the brochure this week making me more determined to go, but it is going to have to be a two day visit to cover both museums. Great report!:)

I love the Gannet being held up by a pile of pallets & an old matress—-a bit like some housing estates I know!!

in that last shot, is that a silver slidey shute to whizz down or some kind of vent system??

Hi
Great pics – Thanks
Was the shot of the Russian limo inside the Antonov and was it for the big man himself or an underling? A bit sparse inside the cabin if it was the big man himself.
Quite nice the way they stick everything up in the air saves making it a huge investment in Land. They seem to keep a lot of it rust free although out in the open, wonder if they cover them with tarps. in the bad weather/winter.
Liked the Buran.:D
Jay

Jay: Cheers yes the limo was inside the AN26, dunno for whom it would have been.
I doubt they cover up the outside exhibits, i believe it is open all year round, and as can be seen on the first shot of the T-33 Shooting Star, a fair build up of moss on its wing (As well as a bird perched on its tail!!!) and D-FOXY looks a bit worse for wear. The Buran is truly impressive, got shots of the cockpit but the glass partition was quite dirty, you can also go up the back stairs of it into the rear section and lots of pics and video presentations around it.
Cheers Pieter and Vee-one (Showing your age a bit there :eek:)

Nice photos as always!

They seem to keep a lot of it rust free although out in the open

I’ve been to Sinsheim & Speyer a few years ago and back then half the collection was rusty. From the photos it looks like a good part of the collection was recently re-painted cause a few years back the planes looked in a very sorry state.

What an amazing collection of aeroplanes! Thanks for posting these. Lovely to see some old designs that I can remember when they were actively airworthy. 🙂

Great pics – Thanks

Hi
Great pics – Thanks
Was the shot of the Russian limo inside the Antonov and was it for the big man himself or an underling? A bit sparse inside the cabin if it was the big man himself.
Quite nice the way they stick everything up in the air saves making it a huge investment in Land. They seem to keep a lot of it rust free although out in the open, wonder if they cover them with tarps. in the bad weather/winter.
Liked the Buran.:D
Jay

Last lot from the Speyer Museum:
















Well worth a visit if in the area… not only aircraft but cars,trains,boats,subs etc…. and also just a few miles down the motorway from here is The Sinsheim Museum featuring a Concorde and a Tu144 side by side… i passed them on the autobahn but could’nt stop to shoot them… another time.
Thanks for looking.

Next set from Speyer Museum:



An awesome craft the Buran….the thing is absolutely huge!!! very impressive:





A classic!! Junkers Ju52

Final lot follows…………