Germany: Flugwerft Schleissheim

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The Flugwerft Schleissheim museum was recently mentioned in another thread. I visited there in August, so I thought I'd share some photos.

Flugwerft Schleissheim is the aviation branch of the marvelous Deutsches Museum in Munich. The Schleissheim facility is a half-hour train ride north of town, adjacent to Germany's oldest operating airfield, which was a military base through both world wars. Part of the museum is in buildings that go back to before WW1. It's a short walk from the spectacular Schleissheim palaces, summer home of Bavaria's royal family.

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This looks something like a Stearman, but it's a Focke-Wulf 44:

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Heinkel He.111 (this one is a CASA 2.111):

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Bücker Bü.181 Bestmann:

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Looks awesome, thanks for the pirep. I really like Germany, next trip I'm going to Munich in part because I really want to see this.
 
Sweet! This museum just got added to our 2015 itinerary. Thanks!
 
Nice pics,thanks for posting
 
The Willy Messerschmitt museum about 30 miles up the road has some nice aircraft as well. At the time I went it wasn't open to the public but perhaps that's changed.
 
A couple of oddball planes that were the product of plenty of government funding during the 60s and 70s but failed to attract commercial success:

The HFB 320 Hansajet pictured in the shot of the main campus aviation hall. While Lear swept the wings of his jet backwards, HFB swept them forward. Very goofy looking wing planform.

The other oddball is the VFW614 commuter jet seen with the 'ATLAS' markings on the tail in the Flugwerft pictures. A design feature that has now come back on the Hondajet are the pylon mounted overwing engines.

The third one is the Do31 VTOL prototype built as an attempt to have a VTOL tactical airlifter. It used to sit in the courtyard of the main museum. Glad they moved it inside and restored it.





Very cool museum. I think I need to make it a part of my next trip. I still have a place in the city, but usually I get in 10pm on friday and head to the airport at 9am the next day for my flight back to the US.
 
I visited that museum 17 years ago when I was living nearby. It had a nice little restaurant that welcomed small children (many German eateries don't want your rug rat, and I had two).

I'm embarrassed that I don't remember much about the planes. Thanks for the nice photos.
 
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