5. Flugwerft

We caught the train to Oberschleissheim Station to the Aviation Museum, which is part of the Deutsches Museum.  It is in Schleissheim, a neat little suburb of Munich.

We walked the 1+km down the street, with more autumn colours.

We were obviously close.

It was cold.  We had anticipated being outside, as at HARS (NSW) and Duxford (UK).  But no, everything was inside and well heated, which was a blessing on this cold morning.

Here are some planes - in no particular order.

The DOWA 81 was a home-made aircraft, built to allow a family to escape from East Germany.  For secrecy, the builder used only non aviation-grade materials and generally available components. Power was provided by two East German MZ motorcycle engines. It was never flown, as the plan was discovered.

Google has a better pic


A Musculair - a human powered aircraft.  It was built by a German academic and engineer in the 1980s.  Apparently he got up to 35 kph.  Nothing relaxing on that flight!

And after looking at all those Spitfires in the UK, here is the other side of the battle: a Messerschmidt 109e.  Behind is is a Heinkel light bomber also used by the Luftwaffe.

And every museum has one of these - a DC3/C47.

As we had our morning tea, I saw this - the same as ours at Cheltenham, assembled by Robert!  Such is globalisation, and Ikea.