Hi /k/, since you showed appreciation to my thread on the Caproni Museum, here's another one, the aviation museum just outside of Munich.I apologize in advance for the bad photos and incomplete reportage, but in there I felt overexcited like a kid high on sugar on Christmas morning, and I didn't have much time to spend there because later in the day I had to catch the flight back home.With that said, here's the first aircraft: a modern flying (AFAIK) replica of the Otto Doppeldecker. Designed by Gustav Otto, son of Nicolaus Otto inventor of the four stroke engine, and built by his company that later became BMW.
Rumpler C IV a German spotting aircraft from WWI.
Focke-Wulf Fw 44 Stieglitz, the first hit for FW, and a thing of beauty if you ask me.
A replica of a Udet U.12a, don't know much about this other than it was a trainer.
Replica of a Grade II Libelle. A flying replica I might add, which is even more terrifying. Wings are missing because stored elsewhere, you'll see them in the next photo.
This is a cool thing: it's the nacelle of a Parseval PL 2 airship. Note: the prop isn't broken, but it was intentionally flexible and gained its shape as it spun up.In the back you can see the two wings of the Libelle.
This is my favorite thing of this hangar: it's a Horten H.IV glider! This aircraft is a bit of a ship of Theseus: it was badly conserved and in a very rough shape, so during the restoration they ended up rebuilding many of its parts, like the fuselage, but otherwise it's the original aircraft. I love flying wings like you wouldn't believe.
A view from behind, where you can appreciate all its wingspan.
The mannequin demonstrates the position the pilot is in.
And another photo for good measure.
One of the oldest motorized German aircrafts: the Vollmöller monoplane. Well, what remains of it. Two brothers were behind this contraption, Karl and Hans. Karl designed the aircraft, Hans self-taught to fly in it as he went, absolute madlad. He died in 1917 in a crash.
There was also a replica of the Lilenthal glider, that I was sure I photographed, but clearly I didn't. I'll continue tomorrow with the other, more exciting hangar.
>>65501805>He doesn't know about Ernst UdetI could dump a ton of information about him, but he is genuinely an interesting fellow to read up on.>>65501790Between the U.12, Ca.100 and Fw 44, which do you like the most? If you are Swiss Air Force Museum anon too, then throw in a Bu 133 into those choices.
>>65502728Fw 44 and Ca.100 way more than the U.12, and I'd give the Fw 44 a slight edge against the Caproncino: I have a soft spot for floatplanes and seaplanes, but the Stieglitz looks like a way more modern design. I'm not the SAF Museum anon.
Pretty incredible. Weird and fascinating.Instructive experiments.
>>65501853Showing us that even with "fixed" propellers (s not adjustable, constant-speed, or anything like that) there was a lot of development that had to happen before they were good.>>65501878Getting out in a hurry looks like it'd be a bit of an experience. I guess there's little on board that might start a fire in a crash at least.
Moving on, the other hangar, let's start with a panoramic view. In the background you can see the Europa rocket, specifically the flight 14, which never flew obviously.>>65503057We gotta give it to the Wright brothers, they got everything right with their flyers, including the propellers, which we give for granted but they clearly were not as obvious as we think they are.
>>65503065>We gotta give it to the Wright brothers, they got everything right with their flyers, including the propellers, which we give for granted but they clearly were not as obvious as we think they are.Yes, from what I've heard they did about as much to advance propeller design as they did for wing design, with the two being linked by them realising that propeller blades were wings with varying airflow speeds along their length.
Following along, do note the drones, especially the EADS Barracuda, a German UAS and a very large one at that.
Thanks, great job OP
A Tornado IDS
A fucking Boeing X-31, a thrust vectoring research aircraft. Looks like a Eurofighter, but it's not. I did take close ups of most of these aircrafts so there's more to come.
The Germans sure do love their gliders.
>>65503110Parts of Europe used to have a thriving glider culture back when everything wasn't kiked and raped to deathNobody younger than 50 can afford to have it as a hobby anymore
And now we start to see the cool and weird stuff. In the foreground a Dornier Do 128-6, a Do 28 with its piston engines swapped with turboprops. This one served as a research aircraft for meteorological research as shown by the long boom for gathering air data.
And now the really cool stuff, the aircrafts I was there for: the German VTOL family!>>65503124Yeah, don't tell me about it. I have a degree in aerospace engineering, a full time job (not in aerospace sadly), and I still can't afford to get a license without nuking my finances, I checked. There's nothing more I'd love than to learn to fly gliders and then design and build an aircraft based off the Horten's work, but man can't do that as a permanent underclass.
Last but not least, a DC-3 and a He-111. This last one is actually a Spanish CASA 2.111B, license built in the mid '50s in about 200 units, mounting Rolls Royce Merlin engines in place of the original german ones. I can't describe how sleek this one looked, photos don't do it justice.
thx for sharing OP
This has been the overview of the hangar. Later I'll post more about individual aircrafts.
>>65503178Little info on that Bücker Bü 181 (the green one on the right): at the end of WW2 they came up with a version armed with four panzerfausts(!) for low altitude attack on tanks.
>>65503149Do 31 ftw
>>65503149>nuking my financesDo it in Pol.. I mean Lechian Empire then. Much much cheaper from what I see. Just been with my boy at an airfireld so he can fly a glider for the first time in his life, and I talked with many young pilots, they sure warent loaded. Hay is it true a lot of engineers are loosking jobs in Krautlandt?
I been to Schleißheim ten years ago. My mate said that his neighbour was working on the airfield as Volkstrum labor filling in bomb craters and towards the end the commandant buried a chest of unissued iron crosses under the runway. So it goes.
>>65503149>but man can't do that as a permanent underclass.Dude I know who's in IT and married with two kids got his license. But that was in Austria, mind. Shop around cross-borders, as the other Anon suggested.
They are currently putting up a massive storage building just a couple hundred meters from my home, for all the planes and stuff that are not on public display in the Flugwerft at the moment. I wonder if one will be able to visit it. The facility is being erected on a huge vacant lot in an industrial area. It was completely overgrown with vegetation liek birch and willow saplings for many many years and in the center of which I had built a cozy, hidden track for my RC cars. Now it is all being bulldozed ... :-( but at least it was sacrificed for something cool.
>>65503149I remember when that VTOL plane with the long black spiky nose was still displayed in a courtyard of the Deutsches Museum, near the entrance.
>>65503213Still safer than the Me 163.>>65503216Indeed. I basically went there for that aircraft specifically and I was ecstatic to find all three.>>65503230>>65503316I'm pasta, so that may explain a few things. From what I can see in my area the demand for engineering jobs is still kinda strong, but there's two big issues: LinkedIn has made job hunting more difficult ad convoluted, and the wage offered isn't keeping up with the skyrocketing prices of gas and rent, so the already low disposal income is rapidly imploding.
Anyways, back to the museum. Here's the business end of Blue Streak. Alexander the Ok did an excellent video essay on this piece of British engineering.
And here's a diagram of the first stage. Probably not peak efficient, although simple and reliable. The Europa rocket was a three stages launch system, each stage provided by Britain, France, and Germany respectively. The partnership fell apart because of the UK, but then reformed as ESA, that stands to this date and produced the Ariane, one of the most successful and reliable launch systems.
>>65501875I thought it was Filthy Frank at first
T-33, an upgraded P-80 turned into a trainer.
Sabre belly, so erotic.
Here's a better photo of the Sabre. In this photo you can also see an Alouette II, the first mass produced helo with a turboshaft engine; this one kept flying up to the 80s.
