Wernigerode being located right North of the Harz mountains might not be the most obvious location for an aviation museum. However, there has been quite some interesting aviation history in the region until the end of World War II. The…
Flying the Douglas C-47 Skytrain at Palm Springs Air Museum
I love historic planes and explore the feeling of flying in a historic manner. For example, I am really happy to state that I twice flew the Lufthansa Junkers Ju-52/3m before the German airline unfortunately retired it from actively flying.…
Flyctory.com Best Ones 2023
Is it really New Year’s Eve already again? The last day of the year? I am posting this one in fact on the 30th December 2023 still, as I am in Las Vegas, nine hours behind Central Europe… But good,…
Gatwick Aviation Museum
Being in Crawley near Gatwick Airport (LGW) by rental car gave me the opportunity to visit the Gatwick Aviation Museum West of one of the key London airports. The visit already took place in May 2022 – now I managed…
Geothermal Exhibition at Hellisheidi Power Plant
It is well-known to most visitors of Iceland that the Nordic island produces a vast majority of their energy with geothermal power. But how it is actually working? The Hellisheidi Power Plant is actually the key provider of energy and…
Arabia Steamboat Museum
The Arabia steamboat is something like what the Vasa is for European ship history (just dated a few centuries later…). The side wheeler steamboat sank in operation close to nowadays Kansas City in 1856 in the Missouri River. In the late 1980’s,…
Henri Tudor Museum (Rosport, Luxembourg)
No, this place is not about The Tudors. Henri Owen Tudor might not be in scope of some of you, but the 1859-born inventor changed our life with one of his key productions. Based on former findings by Wilhelm Josef Sinsteden,…
Andorra National Automobile Museum
Despite just being in the little country for less than 48 hours, I ran into some very interesting sights and museums during my November 2022. One if these places is definitely the Andorra National Automobile Museum (or Museu Nacional de…