Air exhibition Hermeskeil
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The Lufthansa aircraft (D-ALIN) on display flew to Moscow in 1955 by Konrad Adenauer and his delegation to negotiate the release of the last German prisoners of war.
The Lufthansa aircraft (D-ALIN) on display flew to Moscow in 1955 by Konrad Adenauer and his delegation to negotiate the release of the last German prisoners of war.
The Peter Junior flight exhibition is a private aviation museum near Hermeskeil in Rhineland-Palatinate . Over 100 civil and military aircraft and helicopters will be shown on a 76,000 m² site. The exhibition, which opened in July 1973, has a total of 3,600 m² covered area in several halls. The flying exhibition is open from April to October.
Highlighted exhibits
- Alpha Jet , training and light fighter aircraft, in service with the German Air Force from 1979 to 1997
- Antonov An-26 , light Soviet transport aircraft from the 1960s
- Bell 47 , helicopter with fully glazed cockpit ("goldfish bowl"), first flight in 1945
- Concorde , in regular service from 1976 to 2003, second civil supersonic airliner (museum café, replica)
- De Havilland DH.106 Comet , first civil jet airliner in the world (first flight 1949)
- Fairey Gannet , British folding wing submersible from the 1950s
- Heinkel 111 , standard bomber of the German Air Force in World War II
- Junkers Ju 52 / 3m , ("Tante Ju"), airliner and transport aircraft from 1932
- Lockheed Super Constellation , the Lufthansa aircraft with which Konrad Adenauer flew to Moscow in 1955 to negotiate the release of the last German prisoners of war
- Mil Mi-6 , Soviet heavy transport helicopter, formerly the world's largest helicopter
- Messerschmitt Bf 108 , four-seater touring aircraft from the 1930s
- Nord 2501 “Noratlas” , the first transport aircraft of the German Air Force from the 1950s
- several F-104 “Starfighter” , fighter aircraft - in service with the German Air Force from 1960 to 1991
- several McDonnell F-4 "Phantom" , all-weather fighter-bomber (first flight 1958)
- various MiGs : MiG-15 , MiG-17 , MiG-21 , MiG-23
- Panavia tornado
- Vickers Viscount , first turboprop airliner (first flight in 1948), a Tupolev Tu-134 and an Ilyushin Il-18
- Vickers VC10 , four-engine airliner (first flight 1962)
Directions
Hermeskeil is located on the Hunsrückhöhenstraße near the Reinsfeld exit of the A1 motorway ( Koblenz - Saarbrücken ).
See also
Web links
Commons : Air exhibition Hermeskeil - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of all aircraft in the exhibition ( Memento from December 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 49 ° 41 ′ 6.8 ″ N , 6 ° 57 ′ 39.2 ″ E