 1 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Yesterday was a waste. It turned out that my bad eye was "Just a burst blood vessel - nothing to worry about". Nevertheless we decided to return home early - insurance company willing. Today I drove to Egling where I met Rolf for our trip to the Flugwerft Schleissheim. |
 2 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Rolf's Mercedes sports car was in the workshop but Rolf said "You are too big to fit in this. We go in your car." "OK, provided you drive." We take the ring road around Munich and head north. Rolf at 73 is one of the best drivers I've ever been with. |
 3 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 We pass the main Munich Mercedes Benz dealership. |
 4 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 It is huge and is only 1 of 9 in the Munich area. There are multiple stories, at least seven, each stacked with new Mercedes Benz'. |
 5 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 We pass the Olympic Stadium built as the main venue for the 1972 Summer Olympics. The stadium also hosted many major soccer matches including the 1974 World Cup Final and the Euro '88 Final. It hosted the European Cup Finals of 1979, 1993 and 1997. |
 6 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Jenni is not with us today. This is very strange as I have taken her to motor museums, aircraft museums, airshows, motor races and model aeroplane contests across the globe and she has always been incredibly interested. But not today for some reason. |
 7 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 We pass the "Four Cylinder" building which has been the BMW world headquarters for over 30 years. |
 8 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 We enter the museum where somebody immediately comes up to me and tells me something in German. Rolf explains that I am not allowed use my tripod and he takes it back to the cloak room. I am all in favour of these rules because self-centred clowns, oblivious to the rights of others, hog the best viewing spots and dominate them for extensive periods while they fiddle. |
 9 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Valentin Taifun 17 E The Valentin Taifun is a two-seat self-launching sailplane designed and built by Valentin Flugzeugbau GmbH of Hasfurt, Germany. The 17E was the main production variant with a 17 metre wingspan and a Limbach flat-four engine. |
 10 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 We are in the historic hangar, so named because of the hangar itself which was constructed between 1912 and 1919 by the Royal Bavarian Flying Corps. |
 11 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Yakowlew Yak-50 The single-seater, low-wing Yak-50 is one of the most outstanding aerobatics planes of the 1970s. The exhibited plane was one of several Yak-50s flown by GDR aerobatic pilots. After six years of flying they were put into storage in 1985 and acquired by the Deutsches Museum in 1993. |
 12 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Udet U 12 Flamingo The U12 Flamingo is a two-seater training aircraft. In 1925 its maiden flight took place here in Schleissheim and in the following years it became the standard training aircraft of the German Commercial Pilot School at the Schleißheim Airfield. |
 13 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Udet U 12 Flamingo A total of approximately 200 planes was built in Ramersdorf, Augsburg, Austria, Hungary and the Baltic states. The plane on display is a replica built by the Vintage Gliders Association in Munich and its construction took ten years. The reproduction is airworthy; its maiden flight took place on 17 December 2004. |
 14 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Fokker D VII By the time of the Armistice on November 11, 1918, more than 760 D VIIs had been built and deployed to 48 German fighter squadrons. The plane on display was flown by the Dutch navy (MLD) until 1935. |
 15 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Porsche PFM 3200 Porsche's PFM 3200 was a six-cylinder horizontally-opposed air-cooled aircraft engine developed from the air-cooled line of automobile engines from the famous Porsche 911 sports car. The PFM designation was derived from the name of the division that designed the engines, Porsche-Flugmotoren. |
 16 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 MBB 223 Flamingo PFM The MBB-SIAT 223 Flamingo is a three-seater training and sport plane with aerobatic capabilities. The Flamingo PFM on display was the final version and was produced in 1986. It was fitted with a new Porsche PFM 3200 aviation engine but only this experimental prototype was ever built. |
 17 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Fieseler Fi 156C Storch The Storch was used by the Luftwaffe during WWII as a liaison and reconnaissance plane that could take off and land on extremely small landing strips. This particular aircraft is airworthy and is still certified to fly. It is not possible to trace its individual history because it was put together with parts from several different planes. |
 18 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 WACO YKS-6 The YKS-6 on display was built as an ambulance aircraft in 1936 and served in Alaska until 1989 after which a full restoration was carried out. It was then disassembled and shipped to Germany in a container. The plane on display is airworthy and still registered with its original aircraft identification mark NC 16512. |
 19 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Rochelt Musculair 2 Musculair 2 is a muscle-powered aircraft. In 1985 it set a world record for this aircraft type, flying an average speed of 44.26 km/h over a 1.5 km course at Schleissheim. The plane used modern materials such as carbon fibre composites and in the case of the wing, fibreglass/foam sandwich panels. |
 20 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Lancair IV The Lancair IV is a kit plane optimized to achieve long range and low fuel consumption. In touring flight, its fuel consumption is 10 litres/100 or equivalent to a medium-sized car but with twice the speed. Its range is 4800 km. Up until 2005, more than 2000 kits had been sold in 40 countries. |
 21 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Gliding apparatus of Alois Wolfmüller, 1907 The Wolfmüller glider is one of a series of gliders and flying machines designed by the engineer Alois Wolfmüller (1864–1948) of Landsberg, Germany who made numerous experimental flights with them. Wolfmüller handed the 1907 glider over to the Deutsches Museum in 1934. |
 22 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Lilienthal normal sailing apparatus The sailing apparatus was designed by Otto Lilienthal (1848-1896) in 1894. Lilienthal built several copies of it making it the first "mass production" aircraft. He was killed in a crash on 9 August 1896. This replica came to the Deutsches Museum in 1958. |
 23 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Vollmoeller Aircraft The monoplane fragment by the Vollmoeller brothers is part of one of the oldest motorised planes in existence. After WWI the Vollmoeller brothers' nearly intact motorised plane was put on display in the Böblingen Aviation Museum but the museum was dissolved in 1935. Thereafter the plane was stored in a factory. In 1950, the damaged aircraft was donated to the Deutsches Museum and exhibited in the Flugwerft Schleissheim as a fragment in 1992. |
 24 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 We leave the Command Station Area and enter a hallway that takes us to the Aircraft Restoration Hangar and the Exhibition Hall that were added in the 1990's. The Flugwerft Schleissheim is part of the Deutsches Museum based in Munich. |
 25 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Sikorsky S-58 (H-34 G) and Panavia Tornado In the restoration hangar, an S-58 helicopter and a Panavia Tornado are being restored. The Sikorsky S-58 is a midsized helicopter for civil and military use. It was one of the largest helicopters ever fitted with a piston engine. S-58s were stationed at the Schleissheim airfield with an Army flying unit from 1956 until 1969. |
 26 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Panavia Tornado The Tornado is a twin engine, variable sweep wing, combat aircraft developed and built by Panavia Aircraft GmbH which is a tri-national consortium consisting of British Aerospace, MBB of West Germany and Aeritalia of Italy. The Tornado first flew on 14 August 1974. |
 27 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Wood and fabric aircraft are also being restored here as evidenced by the wooden wing ribs and other fuselage parts. |
 28 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 HE-111, C-47 and Kranich II Glider We leave the Aircraft Restoration Hangar and enter the Main Exhibition Hangar. |
 29 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Schulgleiter SG 38 The SG 38 glider was designed to train beginners. With more than 1000 built, it was the best known training glider during the 3rd Reich and was manufactured in larger numbers than any other. The exhibited glider is named ‘Türkenlouis’ – the nickname of the Marquis Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden (1655–1707), a general in the wars against the Turks. |
 30 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Douglas DC-3 (C-47 D Dakota) The DC-3, which dominated the American air transport market from the 1930s until the 1950s, was produced in greater numbers than any of its rivals and was a vital force in establishing a mass market for air travel. |
 31 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Douglas DC-3 (C-47 D Dakota) It was also used for handling Allied air transport during the Second World War. The C-47 aircraft on display was built in the USA as a military aircraft in 1943. |
 32 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Douglas DC-3 (C-47 D Dakota) This aircraft was first flown by the British Royal Air Force before serving the West German air force as a passenger and transport aircraft until 1967. |
 33 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Douglas DC-3 (C-47 D Dakota) It was then used until 1976 in the testing of military air traffic control systems and radio navigation equipment. Its orange colour scheme reflected its role as a test aircraft. |
 34 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Antonov An-2 The An-2 is a sturdy multipurpose aircraft with good low speed performance suitable for use on short runways. The An-2T on display was Polish built under licence and used by the western sector of the Soviet (and later Russian) air force. Its last flight ended in 1993 in Oberschleissheim. |
 35 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Dornier Do 31 E-3 The Dornier Do 31 was the only VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) jet-engined transport aircraft ever built. It was developed for the military but it never went into production. Two prototypes were flown between 1967–1969 as experimental aircraft for researching and testing VTOL flight. |
 36 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Dornier Do 31 E-3 The Do 31 fuselage was designed to carry a 3-ton NATO truck that could drive up the rear ramp into the cargo hold. To lift the aircraft vertically into the air called for ten engines with total thrust of 300 kN. |
 37 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Dornier Do 31 E-3 Under the wings, two lift/cruise engines are mounted with swivelling nozzles to deliver thrust during VTOL manoeuvres and in horizontal flight. At each wing tip, four additional engines provide extra thrust for vertical take-off and landing. |
 38 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Dornier Do 31 E-3 After testing, the Do 31 E-3 was turned over to the Deutsches Museum. For more than 20 years it was on display in front of the main entrance of the museum in the centre of Munich. In 1995 it was moved to the Flugwerft, where it was restored over a five year period. |
 39 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Bell UH-1D More than 16,000 Bell UH-1s were built from 1960 onwards, more than any other helicopter type in the world. The helicopter on display was operated by the Federal Border Patrol stationed at Schleissheim who used it for border patrols, transport and medivac missions. |
 40 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 VFW-Fokker VAK 191 B The experimental VAK 191 B is the prototype of a single-seater VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) fighter and reconnaissance plane designed to fly at high subsonic speeds. |
 41 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 VFW-Fokker VAK 191 B The VAK 191 is one of three VTOL planes developed in the Federal Republic of Germany. It originated with a NATO competition in 1961 for the development of a successor to the ground support and reconnaissance jet Fiat G-91 but with VTOL capability added. |
 42 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 VAK 191 B The project was initially conceived as a joint effort by Italy and Germany. The program was modified several times and finally after the withdrawal of Italy in 1968, was downgraded to a purely experimental program. As a result, only three single- seater prototypes were produced. |
 43 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 North American F-86 (Canadair CL-13B Sabre Mk 6) The North American F-86 Sabre was the first American swept wing jet plane and was the standard fighter plane of the US Air Force in the 1950s. The F-86 was not designed as a supersonic aircraft, but nevertheless could break the sound barrier under ideal conditions. |
 44 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 North American F-86 (Canadair CL-13B Sabre Mk 6) The exhibited aircraft was first used in 1957 at the German Air Force testing facility in Manching and was taken out of service in 1968. In 1992 it was restored by Air Force Supply Regiment 1 in Erding, Germany. |
 45 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Lockheed T-33 A The Lockheed T-33 A is a two-seater jet trainer version of the Lockheed F-80, America's first jet fighter. The West German Air Force took delivery of 192 T-33As between 1956-59 but the plane saw limited service because a short time later it was superseded by the Lockheed F-104G Starfighter. |
 46 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Herr Beibl |
 47 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Dornier Do 24 T-3 The Luftwaffe used the Do 24 for long-range reconnaissance, transport and sea rescue. It could take off and land on high seas with waves up to one metre high. The plane is displayed with its markings from 1960–1969 when it was used as a sea rescue aircraft. |
 48 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Dornier Do 24 T-3 This ocean-going flying boat was used by the Luftwaffe during the Second World War and in Spain until the 1960s as a sea rescue plane. More than 200 Do 24s were built in various versions between 1937 and 1945. |
 49 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. HF-24 Mk 1 Marut The single seater fighter HF-24 Mk 1 Marut (Wind spirit) was developed in India by a team headed by the German designer Kurt Tank. The projected high supersonic speed was never achieved since the Indian government was unable to procure a sufficiently powerful engine. The plane was in service with the Indian Air Force until 1986. |
 50 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II The F-4 Phantom II is a two-seater, twin-engine supersonic fighter plane. The F-4E exhibited was transferred to Bitburg Air Base in Germany and was used for five years by the US fighter unit stationed there. |
 51 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Mikojan-Gurewitsch MiG-23 BN The MiG-23 is a swing wing aircraft that was in widespread use in the 1980s in the Warsaw Pact states and Arab countries. As an aircraft with variable wing geometry, it is comparable to the MRCA Tornado. |
 52 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Mikojan-Gurewitsch MiG-23 BN The MiG-23 BN exhibited was stationed in Drewitz, Germany with the Jagdbombenfliegergeschwader 37 (Fighter Bomber Squadron 37) of the NVA (the Nationale Volksarmee, the armed forces of the former GDR). The GDR had 77 MiG-23s in operation in the 1980s. |
 53 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Mikojan-Gurewitsch MiG-23 BN After reunification, the Bundeswehr (Federal Defence Force) took possession of the planes and decommissioned them. A large percentage of the aircraft were scrapped in compliance with the disarmament treaties. Compared with US and European aircraft, the fit and finish is abominable. |
 54 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Mikojan-Gurewitsch MiG-21 MF The MiG-21 was a standard USSR plane in the 1970s and 1980s and one of the most numerous supersonic aircraft ever built. Following German reunification in 1990, East German military aircraft became the property of the Bundeswehr. They were gradually scrapped in the subsequent years under the 1973 Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) treaties. |
 55 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Saab 35 Draken The Saab 35 Draken was a double delta fighter aircraft manufactured by Saab in Sweden between 1955 and 1974. It was an effective supersonic Cold War fighter that was also exported to Austria, Denmark and Finland. The last aircraft retired from the Austrian Airforce in 2005. |
 56 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 EADS / Boeing X-31 The X-31 is an experimental aircraft for research and testing of new technologies with the aim of improving the manoeuvrability of fighter planes through thrust vectoring. The X-31 was developed, built and tested under a German American cooperative program. |
 57 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Eurofighter Typhoon The Eurofighter was designed and built by a consortium of three companies: EADS, Alenia Aeronautica and BAE Systems. With 707 aircraft ordered by six nations (Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, Austria and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), the aircraft is Europe’s largest military collaborative program. |
 58 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Eurofighter Typhoon The Eurofighter EF-2000 DA1 (DA=Development Aircraft) on display is the first flown prototype of this aircraft. |
 59 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Lockheed F-104 F Starfighter The Lockheed F-104 F is a two-seater training version of the F104 Starfighter. Numerous incidents and crashes called into question the safety of the early Starfighters: by the time the Starfighter was decommissioned there had been 269 crashes in which 110 pilots died. |
 60 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Lockheed F-104 F Starfighter The Starfighter on display was one of the first 10 training planes imported from the USA in 1960 for final assembly at the Nörvenich air force base. It was decommissioned in 1971 along with the other F-104 F aircraft. |
 61 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Europa launcher The Europa launcher was the first European attempt, in the early 1970s, to develop a three-stage satellite launcher rocket. The three stages came from Great Britain, France and Germany. The rocket on display is the only complete Europa launcher remaining. |
 62 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Europa Launcher It was to carry a satellite designed and built in Italy with the telemetry to be developed by the Netherlands. Belgium was to develop the down range ground-guidance system. The consortium of nations was called the European Launcher Development Organisation (ELDO) |
 63 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Europa Launcher By 1969 ELDO was beginning to realise that dividing the work by country led to a lack of collaboration and disjointed planning that caused the many unsuccessful launch attempts. The West Germans blamed the explosion of Europa 2 in November 1971 on the immense divisions with ELDO. |
 64 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Europa Launcher This is the second stage made by France; it had a burn time of 96 seconds. From 1964-1970 the Europa rockets were launched from Woomera Australia. The Europa program was divided into 4 successive projects: • Europa 1: Four unsuccessful launches • Europa 2: One unsuccessful launch • Europa 3: Cancelled before any launch occurred • Europa 4: Study only, later cancelled |
 65 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Europa Launcher This is the German built third stage. On 2 July 1969, on a launch at Woomera the third stage failed to light after the other two had successfully fired. It was planned that after the third stage reached orbit, an apogee kick motor (visible here) would put a satellite into a geosynchronous orbit. |
 66 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 BMW 803 Aircraft Engine 1944 The BMW 803 was BMW's attempt to build a high power aircraft engine by "coupling" two BMW 801s back-to-back driving contrarotating propellers. The result was a 28-cylinder 4-row liquid cooled radial engine. The 803 never ran properly on the test bench and did not enter production. |
 67 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 W12 Engine An early W12 engine. I can not find any more details about it. |
 68 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Heinkel He 111 H-16 (CASA 2.111 B) The He 111 was designed as a multipurpose aircraft and was used alongside the Ju 88 as a standard bomber of the Luftwaffe in WWII. The exhibited aircraft is a CASA 2.111B version produced under licence until 1956 by Construcciones Aeronáuticas S.A. (CASA) in Tablada, Spain |
 69 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 Heinkel He 111 H-16 (CASA 2.111 B) The CASA version is fitted with two British Rolls Royce engines in place of the German engines. After it was taken out of service by the Spanish Air Force in 1967, the plane was used in the film "The Battle of Britain". It flew for the last time in September 1970. |
 70 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 The historic old portions of the Flugwerft Schelissheim viewed from inside the display area. |
 71 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 After leaving the Flugwerft, we head back to Egling and on the way we pass two mounds. Normally piles of rubble are not interesting but Rolf pointed out that these mounds were the rubble moved from Munich after the bombing of WWII stopped and rebuilding started. |
 72 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 The other mound is near the Allianz Arena, a soccer stadium opened in 2006 and home to the FC Bayern Munich. The dome changes colours to red, white or blue depending on which team is playing. I asked Rolf what it was like being a child in Germany during WWII and he spoke about it all the way back to Egling. For me, this was a fascinating insight. |
 73 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 I met up with Jenni who had spent the day in Munich. We were due to meet the Beibls in Bad Tolz for dinner at 17:30. I thought we had plenty of time but 17:30 is 5:30 pm and we got there just in time. |
 74 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 We had a lovely meal once again. For once, I managed to avoid the pork dish that I’d somehow ordered three times in a row and didn’t want again. Jenni said she’d have whatever Maria was having and it turned out to be steak. |
 75 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 It came as a bit of a shock to realise we only have four more days in Bavaria and there is still a bunch of things that we want to see and do. We’ve prioritised the things and now have a short list. Rolf and Maria have invited us on Saturday to join them on bonfire night. This is to celebrate the summer solstice (delayed because of rain) |
 76 Wednesday 30 June, 2010 After a couple of hours, our day ended and we said farewell until Saturday. Next album: Jenni visited Munich today while Jeff and Rolf looked at aeroplanes |
