So I did get to go to Berlin. This was the museum I managed to visit. Much less WW2 stuff than I expected but damn, what a stack of awesome planes!
The first post pic is the only one I didn't take myself. Posting pics now as I convert them to manageable size; this will be slow and sloppy. But if you are into planes will be worth the ride. Promise.
Some of the planes in the collection were presented in apparently untouched condition, as if they had been stolen from a garbage heap after first being dug up. I am not sure of the rationale behind this. Does the museum lack the funds to fully restore them? (They have 150 planes in stock) Or do they simply look more interesting or have more collection value like this. I hope it is the second.
alot of museums can barely keep their doors open and the lights on, let alone preserve their aircraft in pristine condition. The larger museums like the US Air Force museum at Wright-Patt has a large support network and lots of donations, so they have a massive indoor facility.
Good ol' double ugly.
I remember when we used to have an annual airshow at our tiny ass hobby airfield and the Luftwaffe would send Phantoms for a fly-over.
They even sent a Hercules to land on our tiny grass strip.
But then the Italians did their usual shpiel and fucked up in Ramstein and then there were no airshows anymore.
Probably most of the East German stuff is left to rust away and hasn't been touched in years (or even decades). West Germany inherited so much of it that it was costing them money to scrap it and even selling it to other nations was hardly creating a profit. And then consider 's post about how many museums lack funding & support, that means they need to pick which pieces will get better treatment and in pretty much every case a MiG or Sukhoi will be at the bottom of that list because there's so many of them.
What’d the Italians do?
Thanks for the ID. I took a lot of photos but in the cold and the wind I regrettably didn't take notes of the names as I went. I wish I could say I can id all these planes from memory but if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
Ramstein. The Ita display team (Freccie Tricolori) fucked up and crashed on civvies, killing 70 and wounding 350. Ita pilots fucked up and German\American emergency services fucked up even more.
They crashe because the Cia wanted to cover up the Itavia 870 being shot down. they killed the three Italian pilots who witnessed the failed attempt to assassinate Gaddafi, other coincidence the tower controllers that witnessed committed suicide after that & the commander of the Italian air base that sent planes to intercept would die in a car crash.
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Looks like I won't get further tonight. Got 50 more pics coming though. In this thread. or seubsequent if it leaves.