Post by Slide on Jan 24, 2011 7:56:23 GMT -5
To the Sea...
Between Bremerhaven and Hamburg there is a place I wanted to visit for a long time called the "Aeronauticum".
(www.aeronauticum.de/)
It is a privatly run Museum aside the Nordholz Airport, where "Marinefliegergeschwader 3" continues a century long
tradition of flying over the North sea. It began around 1914 when the Kaiser´s "Marineluftschiffe" started from here.
And that is why I came to visit.
When I entered the place the first thing I saw was the reproduction of the Controlcar of one of the late Highclimbers -
and that let me forget everything else for a while.
Up the stairs to have look inside!
View inside the cabin with one man climbing upstairs to reach the catwalk
View from behind with the radio operator to the left and many Machine Telegraphs to the right.
There was a friendly guy who turned out to be the maker of several of their displays who allowed me to enter the cabin
and stand inside to have a closer look at the old and mostly original instruments. He added that though they were able
to reproduce the whole thing even they do not know about every function of the knobs and Telegraph commands!
After feeling like the old Eckener and beeing totally infected I had a privat guided walkaround and looked at all the
2-meter showcases and listened to the stories.
The following pictures go specially to Mr Belov who built as well the V-Class ship (Here shown in the moment of it´s
loss over England) as the scene near Denmark when a Marineluftschiff brought up a Norwegian Sailship enroute to Britain.
Other displays show everything about "Nobel", the giant moving double-hangar. (Ruins of that in the garden)
The next picture might be a rare gem for the addicted, it shows the underground of the building residing on 8 electric
driven wheelpacks able to turn 360° within an hour.
I photographed a photograph
Another unique piece of aviation history is the wooden Schuette-Lanz-Rigid. These never flew from Nordholz, as they
did not like the always bad weather over Friesland, but the Inventor came from Oldenburg, a town nearby.
The Aeronaticum holds the complete history and documentation of the Schuette-Lanz ships in their archive and
are the only source for that at all.
Schuette-Lanz used very ingenious construction techniques from which the Count had to buy some for his works.
The pic above shows "SL-II" as a 1:72 scale model while being fitted. Somewhere on the display there is a little fire
engine and the original resides in the museum´s cellar. I was taken there, too. Great storage:
Ancient flight sims, DB-605´s galore and some old Hirth 4-cyclinders also *ggg*
Same "SL-II" as 1:10 scale model: Fifteen meters long, biggest model airship in the world. You can see it in my first picture, too. Stunning detail!
SL-ships were wooden artwork, built in a perfection that is sheer unbelievable in the sight of the giant thing, all handcrafted!
Below a segment of the catwalk, in the second pic you may notice that part of the construction was hollow!
After the first two hours or so I went out to the garden for some cigarettes and stumbled upon this Bristol Hercules.
Needs little polish...
It was a perfect day for me. I also was allowed to buy some old books from their archives (doubles) and I feel happy today ;D
though a little tired from the 800+ km we had to drive for the visit.
(In return the Aeronauticum folks now know about airships in FS9 and they were very interested as they have built an airship-sim on their own - but it didn´t work that day)
Later today I´ll fire up my FS9 and have a spin with the "Graf". Hope you enjoyed my pics!
Between Bremerhaven and Hamburg there is a place I wanted to visit for a long time called the "Aeronauticum".
(www.aeronauticum.de/)
It is a privatly run Museum aside the Nordholz Airport, where "Marinefliegergeschwader 3" continues a century long
tradition of flying over the North sea. It began around 1914 when the Kaiser´s "Marineluftschiffe" started from here.
And that is why I came to visit.
When I entered the place the first thing I saw was the reproduction of the Controlcar of one of the late Highclimbers -
and that let me forget everything else for a while.
Up the stairs to have look inside!
View inside the cabin with one man climbing upstairs to reach the catwalk
View from behind with the radio operator to the left and many Machine Telegraphs to the right.
There was a friendly guy who turned out to be the maker of several of their displays who allowed me to enter the cabin
and stand inside to have a closer look at the old and mostly original instruments. He added that though they were able
to reproduce the whole thing even they do not know about every function of the knobs and Telegraph commands!
After feeling like the old Eckener and beeing totally infected I had a privat guided walkaround and looked at all the
2-meter showcases and listened to the stories.
The following pictures go specially to Mr Belov who built as well the V-Class ship (Here shown in the moment of it´s
loss over England) as the scene near Denmark when a Marineluftschiff brought up a Norwegian Sailship enroute to Britain.
Other displays show everything about "Nobel", the giant moving double-hangar. (Ruins of that in the garden)
The next picture might be a rare gem for the addicted, it shows the underground of the building residing on 8 electric
driven wheelpacks able to turn 360° within an hour.
I photographed a photograph
Another unique piece of aviation history is the wooden Schuette-Lanz-Rigid. These never flew from Nordholz, as they
did not like the always bad weather over Friesland, but the Inventor came from Oldenburg, a town nearby.
The Aeronaticum holds the complete history and documentation of the Schuette-Lanz ships in their archive and
are the only source for that at all.
Schuette-Lanz used very ingenious construction techniques from which the Count had to buy some for his works.
The pic above shows "SL-II" as a 1:72 scale model while being fitted. Somewhere on the display there is a little fire
engine and the original resides in the museum´s cellar. I was taken there, too. Great storage:
Ancient flight sims, DB-605´s galore and some old Hirth 4-cyclinders also *ggg*
Same "SL-II" as 1:10 scale model: Fifteen meters long, biggest model airship in the world. You can see it in my first picture, too. Stunning detail!
SL-ships were wooden artwork, built in a perfection that is sheer unbelievable in the sight of the giant thing, all handcrafted!
Below a segment of the catwalk, in the second pic you may notice that part of the construction was hollow!
After the first two hours or so I went out to the garden for some cigarettes and stumbled upon this Bristol Hercules.
Needs little polish...
It was a perfect day for me. I also was allowed to buy some old books from their archives (doubles) and I feel happy today ;D
though a little tired from the 800+ km we had to drive for the visit.
(In return the Aeronauticum folks now know about airships in FS9 and they were very interested as they have built an airship-sim on their own - but it didn´t work that day)
Later today I´ll fire up my FS9 and have a spin with the "Graf". Hope you enjoyed my pics!