Conkordski Crash

[Regiment]

williamp said:

Was Helga there too??

Loved Helga, definitely preferred her over the maids and the resistance woman.

[Halmyre]

Regiment said:

williamp said:

Was Helga there too??

Loved Helga, definitely preferred her over the maids and the resistance woman.

Difficult choice; I'd need to have done some side-by-side comparison...

[Eric Mc]

Now that IS what I call a thread deviation (not that I'm complaining, mind).

[Ayahuasca]

Evoluzione said:

CanAm said:

Evoluzione said:

youngsod said:

Interesting to see that Heinkel sporting a swastika on it's tail, I thought public display of the swastika was illegal in Germany. I certainly remember visiting the Deutsche Museum in Munich in 2013 and both the 109 and the 262 did not have it.

It's often stated the Germans are embarrassed about the wars, but you definitely get the impression at Sinsheim that it's neither embarrassment nor pride, purely neutral and open just as it should be; 'this is what we did in those times, it's history'.

I've mentioned this before about Sinsheim; not just the Swastikas but also the mannequins in the dioramas. The German troops are healthy blue-eyed blonds while the Russians are all evil looking, unshaven with sunken cheeks and bulging eyes. I felt a little uncomfortable there.

I can't say I analyzed them that much. They were quite curious though and I wasn't sure if there was some kind of German humour going on there, wooden ewe say so?

So it was true that there were Wombles all over the world.

[Ayahuasca]

Re the inverted V engine, I believe that the Me-110 used a similar configuration, where it had little to do with visibility or accommodating a cannon.

[FourWheelDrift]

youngsod said:

Evoluzione said:

There you go:

Edited by Evoluzione on Wednesday 30th November 14:33

Interesting to see that Heinkel sporting a swastika on it's tail, I thought public display of the swastika was illegal in Germany. I certainly remember visiting the Deutsche Museum in Munich in 2013 and both the 109 and the 262 did not have it.

Interesting choices all round, Spanish built CASA 2111 wearing an eastern front colour scheme used only during the winter of 1942/3

[andy_s]

Ayahuasca said:

So it was true that there were Wombles all over the world.

Who knew...

[PH5121]

I've been to the museum at Sinsheim many times when visiting Stuttgart and last year went to the sister museum at Speyer.

Both are great, the Sinsheim site is larger and has more exhibits, but the Speyer site has a Buran Russian space craft, a hall dedicated to space related exhibits and boats and a submarine outside.

If ever in the area and wanting to visit a museum I would say that they are more interesting than the Porsche or Mercedes museums are.

[dr_gn]

Ayahuasca said:

Re the inverted V engine, I believe that the Me-110 used a similar configuration, where it had little to do with visibility or accommodating a cannon.

I think many, if not most, applications of the 601/605 engines were not single engined aircraft.

It's not really a unique configuration for the era, the DeHavilland Gypsy 12 was an inverted V as well for example, and that was used in the Albatross, a four engined airliner.