Especially as a German aviation enthusiast, being on board of an aircraft carrier is just a cool experience again and again. One of the museum places where this is possible is the West shore of Manhattan, where the USS Intrepid…
Malta Aviation Museum
With Malta being an island, it feels quite obvious that you might expect a rather interesting local history of air traffic. If you are interested in aviation and visit the country, the Malta Aviation Museum is likely on your bucket…
TWA Museum Kansas City
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,…