Flugausstellung Hermeskeil.

[Ferry_vO]

I visited this place in the German Eiffel fifteen years ago, and we went back last weekend. It's a private collection with a lot of German aircraft obviously, but also a lot of Russian (Former DDR), British and American aircraft. Of course the USA and UK had fields in Germany; in fact Spangdahlem AB is not far away from this museum.

Took 350 photos that day and it was hard to select a few to post!

Kamov Ka-26 'Hoodlum' former DDR police:

French Nord 1002 painted to look like a Messerschmitt Bf.108:

Overview of the first hall (Most aircraft are outside):

Bristol Sycamore:

Second hall with an interesting Swiss C.3605 target tug in the middle:

Russian Mil Mi-1 with an Mi-2 behind it:

Focke Hartz Fo Ha 1 helicopter:

Horten XVc glider from 1952:

 

[Ferry_vO]

Outside, a beautiful day with a temperature close to 30 degrees!

Mil Mi-14:

Mirage III:

Vickers VC.10:

English Electric Lightning:

Dan Air De Havilland Comet:

Douglas C-47:

Sign inside the C-47:

'Heinkel 111'; Actually it is of course a CASA 2111 with Merlin engines! Possibly even a movie star from the 'Battle of Britain'?

 

[Ferry_vO]

Gigantic Mil Mi-6 'hook':

Tupolev Tu-134:

Fairey Gannet:

Mil Mi-4:

EE Canberra B1 Mk.8:

Boeing/Piasecki H21C Shawnee:

 

[Ferry_vO]

Republic F105F Thunderchief:

MiG-23:

Saab Draken:

Lockheed L0149G Super Constellation:

Ilyushin Il-18:

MDD RF-4C Phantom:

Former Swiss AF DH 112 Venom FB4:

A 1:1 model of a Concorde which serves as a café:

 

[CybrSlydr]

Lots of aircraft I've not seen before, especially those helos. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Ferry_vO]

Thanks Cybr! I must say the place looked better than it did fifteen years ago from what I remember and what I see on some old photos. Still a lot of work to do though, the 'He-111' looked pretty bad in close-ups.

Anyway, I've sorted out a few more to post:

Brantley B.2:

Westland Scout:

MiG-23BN (Ground attack version) crammed in an impossible corner to get decent photos:

Dornier Do-28 B2:

Nord Noratlas:

Vickers 814D Viscount:

British Percival Pembroke:

And a German Pembroke:

Let Z-37 Cmelak:

Mil Mi-24P (Note the empty gun housing on the side of the fuselage):

 

[Ferry_vO]

Fiat G-91R3:

Republic F-84F Thunderstreak:

And of course an RF-84F Thunderflash too:

Early MiG-21 F 13:

Sukhoi Su-22M4:

 

[Ferry_vO]

Canadair CL13B (Canadian-built North American F86E Sabre); also note the sad remains of a Harrier and a Jet Provost in the background:

Sepecat Jaguar GR.1:

Panavia Tornado:

Belgian Lockheed F-104G Starfighter:

Dassault Super Mystere B2:

 

[Ferry_vO]

Last ones..

The Connie again:

CASA 352 (Spanish Junkers Ju-52):

MiG-23 and Starfighter:

Mil Mi-8T:

MDD F-4C Phantom II:

 

[robcap]

Ferry, you must give me the address, I'll sure take a look overthere, now the holidays are around the corner!
Great pictures, it's a massiv collection they have there.
Thanks for sharing.

Cheers, Rob

 

[Ferry_vO]

Rob: http://www.flugausstellung.de/

About 20 kilometers from Trier; From Maastricht you can follow the signs to Luik (Liege) to Trier (Treves) and than to Hermeskeil, or just turn on the DomDom.

 

[Ferry_vO]

BTW I'm not quite happy with the new 'auto-resize' feature of either this forum software or Photobucket; I manually resized to 1024 width but they show up at only 800 pixels wide, but appear to loose more than a bit of quality.
Oh well, if anyone wants a bigger photo let me know and I'll send it.

 

[CybrSlydr]

That's why I use Flickr.

 

[Ferry_vO]

I checked and it is definitely the SOH forum software that limiting the filesize to 800 px wide.

 

[peter12213]

Fabulous Photo's mate, I'd love to have a day wondering around there, lots of historic and brilliant aircraft I must admit I love that swiss C.3605 target tug, would love one of those for FSX!

 

[Bjoern]

Anyone willing to help me abduct one of the Interflug/LSK birds? :d

Great photos!