TWA – or: Trans World Airlines – is something like an icon of (US-)American aviation. Even though the St. Louis-based company seized operations more than two decades ago, there is still a lot of magic and emotion behind this airline…
Polish Aviation Museum (Krakow)
One of the largest aviation museums of the world is in fact located in Krakow, Poland. Thus, it was not that shocking that I had to visit the place when I had been in the city the last time in…
Volandia Aviation Museum Milan
The last stop of a trip through Italy in late summer 2021 lead me to Volandia, an aviation museum (and much more) close to Malpensa Airport. The visit there was massive and took me over three hours. Here are some…
Icelandic Aviation Museum (Akureyri)
Flugsafn Islands – or the Icelandic Aviation Museum – has of course been a attraction I just could not miss while visiting Akureyri in my 2021 trips. Nonetheless, it took a while to gather all my thoughts into a posting –…
Fassberg Airlift Museum
After the end of World War II, the blocking of access to West Berlin by the Soviet Union (the so-called Berlin Blockade) lead to the Berlin Airlift (in German: Berliner Luftbrücke, literally: “Berlin Air Bridge”): This way of supplying West Berlin by air…
Jet Age Museum Gloucester
The Gloster Aircraft Company (the original name has been Gloucestershire Aircraft Company) has been active from 1917 to 1961. The most remarkable achievements were the Gloster E28/39 and the Gloster Meteor, the first jet airplanes manufactured in the United Kingdom. Thus,…
Austrian Aviation Museum
Before flying back from Graz Airport (GRZ) to Frankfurt, I just had to head South of the terminal area. Right next to the runway, there is the quite interesting Austrian Aviation Museum, called Österreichisches Luftfahrtmuseum in German. I was really…
Lyon Air Museum Santa Ana
In February 2020, I visited a lovely aviation museum in Santa Ana, Greater Los Angeles: the Lyon Air Museum is named after its founder, Major General William Lyon, who unfortunately passed away a few months after my visit. Here is…