Contunued from Part-II,
The supersonic beauties!!
The Concorde F-BVFB super sonic jet.
You can climb into the jet and make your way inside all the way to the cockpit!
Lots of information can be found in the Museum home page
The Russian Tupolev TU-144 - The FIRST supersonic jet to reach Mach2!!
Similar to the Concorde you can climb into the jet and reach till the cockpit
This exhibit travelled 4000 kms by land and water all the way from Moscow to Sinsheim.
Again, lots of information can be found at the museum home page
Ilyushin Il-14 in Bulgarian Air Transport
Tupolev
Concorde
The nozzle of the Tupalov
In side the Tuplalov
Inside the Concorde
The cockpit of the Concorde - the days of analog switches - Three (or was it four?) pilots working in absolute tandem and knowing which switch belongs to him/her and activating them at just the right time!!!
I was told that cockpit even these days are mostly analog - as they are usually failsafe - not sure about that though, When ever I have boarded an airplane, the airhostess always told me - your seats are at the other way please
With so many meters and gauges on the dashboard, The average car user who is used to a maximum of 3-4 meters on the dash board will get dizzy and imagine that pilot driving the average car with just three meters on the dash board!!
Landing gear
Nose wheel - Those spikes on the tyre are the reason, which I saw every where in Stuttgart, that pigeons most of the times, sat on the ground and did not bless the people ( know what I mean?) passing thru doorways/ archways and along the edges of buildings
The Rolls-Royce - Snecma engine on the Concorde.
A glider from a flight club at Sinsheim - Thanks to the Canon Powershot 12X zoom and 54X of digital zoom
Inside one of the Cockpit of the aircraft - I am unable to recollect which one it was.
Emergency helicopter MBB Kawasaki
BMS Dallara 192 F1 car
Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren 722 GT
Ferrari's and other beauties from the Photo point
Mercedes beauties from the photo point
The sensational Blue flame - the fastest rocket propelled surface-craft of all times. On October 23, 1970 the American Gary Gabelich set a fantastic new world record with this hybrid between car and rocket, when he reached an average speed of 1014.656 km/h on the Bonneville salt flats. - more details on the museum home page
The Classic Mercedes cars
Rolls-Royce Phantom II 2 1934 120ps
Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost - Immediately after its debut on the market, thanks to the excellent finish, silent running and its reliability, the RR-Silver Ghost was chosen as the "Best car of the World" at the automobile exhibition in London.
This Silver Ghost was built for the Maharajah of Hyderabad - India and was used by the maharajah for decades. There is no spare wheel at the left side and instead a handle for the body guard to hold while he stood guard on the running board (from the exhibit placard)
The 24 Cylinder, 12,600 PS, 850000 ccm displacement - MAN Shiffsmotor built in 1943 (from the placard)
Original U boat motor -
This diesel marine engine built by the MAN company at Augsburg was delivered to the Austrian navy in 1917. this motor was mounted on the Austrian submarine KKU 48, which had two of those engines. After it broke up in 1918, it was used as a power plant in a silver mine in Bolivia. In 1934 it was in Italy and then on it was placed at Sinsheim (from the placard)
The small railway station of Sinsheim is located in a a beautiful and picturesque location. There is a flight club which can be seen in the distance behind the station.
One small aircraft/glider plane making a landing
That is all I could share from what little I could gather in a one day visit.
A single day visit is definitely not the way to do it though.
If some one is interested to visit Sinsheim, better to club the Sinsheim technik museum and the Speyer Museum which is about 35 km from this place and cover both these places in at least 3 to 4 days.
Most of the one line information for the exhibits are from the placards and some are from after searching on the internet. Please excuse me if some incorrect information has crept in.
Thank you for your time.