This time we visit the second half of the Technik museum at Sinsheim.
If you miss part one at Spreyer then check that video out top right now.
Sinsheim is about an hour from Frankfurt, ticket and pricing
information is available on this website and you can buy a single or combined
ticket to both museums. The stars of the show are the Air France
Concorde closely flanked by the Russian tupolovTU-144.
There are numerous other aircraft to explore on the roof top above the
transport hall. The concorde draws a crowd and you may
have to queue a bit to get in. Joining the Air France fleet on the 8th
of april 1976 this original concorde is a completely walk-in tour via the
spiral staircase climbing up through the cabin to 30 metres.
Over its flying career it accomplished
14,771 flight hours and 5,473 flights.
The final flight was on the 24th of June 2003
from Charles de Gaulle to Barden Barden before it was transported to Sinsheim.
Inside you're immediately struck to how small the cabin is
as you can see the queue is quite long as well. Areas of the seating have been
removed to aid in moving around and you may notice that the windows are
much smaller than other commercial airliners.
Really the seating space was quite cramped people were paying more for the
speed to arrive at their destination rather than comfort
The galley was tiny how they managed to present world-class meals in this area i
don't know.
The cockpit is cramped and once state-of-the-art equipment looks pretty
dated now. Seating three, the engineer sat to the
side monitoring the engines and hydraulics amongst other things.
In 1960 Russia was competing with UK and french designers
to put a supersonic plane in the skies. When the TU-144 appeared it resembled
concorde so much there was suspicion of
industrial espionage. This however was never proved and the
TU-144 took off ahead of concorde on its maiden flight
on new year's eve 1968. Concorde didn't make it up until the 2nd of march 1969.
After months of more testing the TU became the first commercial aircraft to
fly at mark 2, on the 26th of May 1917.
Things seemed to be going well for the aircraft but the overall project
suffered a major setback at the Paris air show in 1973 when in
front of the cameras a TU came down. When the aircraft finally made it into
commercial service its only route was Moscow to Alma Ata
and after seven months the service was dropped due to another crash.
Its last regular flight was the 1st of June 1978.
Having visited the stars of the show, you can move down into the transport halls
where there's a small exhibit tracking the history of Concorde,
and the four Rolls-Royce engines from the Air France are on display.
There are over 300 vintage cars from all eras on display.
On the website they state the exhibition represents almost
anything that has traveled on wheels around the world.
Well they're not wrong! The collection is wonderful and well maintained,
whether you like cars, planes, trains or even agricultural vehicles
there is something here for you.
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