Just visited the Technik Museum Sinsheim, Germany and it was amazing!
Posted by Nightstalker1993@reddit | aviation | View on Reddit | 45 comments
Just posting the highlights which are the Concorde and Tupolev on display! Full of planes, cars, bikes, farm equipment and many more things inside, literally took 1000 photos with my phone today. Went in when they opened, left when they closed.
SirPiffingsthwaite@reddit
Welp, there's another item for my bucket list.
soghanda@reddit
If u are in the area: There are two museums like this close to another:
Technikmuseum Sinsheim (this one) and Technikmuseum Speyer (no concorde, but AN-22 and Boeing 747).
A weekend trip to visit both is very recommended!
Jonock@reddit
I was in Speyer yesterday and will visit Sinsheim today 🙌🏻
ElSquibbonator@reddit
This place is on my bucket list.
Nightstalker1993@reddit (OP)
Unrelated to the sub, but they also have a freakin submarine you can walk in and admire in all it's glory!
tactical_fortapelse@reddit
At Speyer, the second one, is also a sub. And more planes :)
tyrannosaurusfuck@reddit
At the Speyer location they have a gag if you open the restroom door in the submarine thats pretty funny.
I love that place. I have a super cute video of my wife coming down that huge slide too. Great memories.
SkyscraperNC@reddit
As a submarine and aviation enthusiast, I now have a place to add to my bucket list of places to visit
ElSquibbonator@reddit
That would seem to be quite related to the sub.
Nightstalker1993@reddit (OP)
Took me 10 seconds to realize what I just said 😂
Klinky1984@reddit
Those flight decks are insane.
BAFUdaGreat@reddit
Fun fact: we lived in Paris in the early 70s. We were driving home from a picnic day in the forest near Ermenonville just NE of Paris. As we came down the A1 near CDG, we saw this large plane to our right side basically breaking up in pieces in the air and falling to the ground followed by a huge red explosion and lots of smoke. We had no idea what happened and it was only when we got home that we learned of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Paris_Air_Show_Tupolev_Tu-144_crash
redoctoberz@reddit
I was driving between Koblenz and Stuttgart and saw all the billboards on the way, thought -- that might be cool. Then I saw the TU-144 and the Concorde and just became mouth agape. I never thought I'd ever see the TU-144 in person, and I had never seen a Concorde yet. I had to stop. The rest of the museum was just a cherry on top. It is one of my favorite "stumbleupon" adventures I've ever had. I wish I could have stayed longer.
lookin_like_atlas@reddit
Went to the Speyer museum last year, I was like a kid at Discovery Zone!
Proton_Energy_Pill@reddit
One small correction to the Tu-144 sign - It wasn't the first commercial airliner to go supersonic, that was a DC-8 a few years earlier.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/i-was-there-when-the-dc-8-went-supersonic-27846699/
Nightstalker1993@reddit (OP)
I've read this story before, It technically counts, but it doesn't count 😂
tactical_fortapelse@reddit
I also have been there a couple of weeks ago!
Awwwmann@reddit
How about that orange rocket in pick 18?!
Nightstalker1993@reddit (OP)
Nice colours!
tactical_fortapelse@reddit
tnanks!
beezxs@reddit
Is that Concordski
Nightstalker1993@reddit (OP)
Yes it indeed is a concordski
Digger_Pine@reddit
Would the Concorde takeoff/land with the nose dropped?
I thought that was only for taxiing.
Strong_Coffee_9999@reddit
Yes. 5 degrees down for takeoff, 12.5 degrees for landing, and back to 5 degrees for taxi.
Nightstalker1993@reddit (OP)
They lower the nose on landing so that the pilot can actually see the runway
Digger_Pine@reddit
OK, is the same true for takeoff?
bryce_w@reddit
That looks like an incredible museum!
ZappBrannigansLaw@reddit
I was there last summer. A single day is not enough time for the entire place
JelloBooBoy@reddit
Cool they even have an early version of the Canadair water bomber. They used to be built near where I grew up in Canada.
Nightstalker1993@reddit (OP)
Here's the plaque for it
Nightstalker1993@reddit (OP)
A single day is enough, from 9am to 7pm. Though I did skim through a number of exhibits in hall 1 where it was mostly farm equipments....
elvnjs@reddit
Fun fact: the Concorde physically stretched by about 25 cm (nearly 10 inches) during supersonic cruise at Mach 2. Aerodynamic friction heated the skin to around 127°C, expanding the entire airframe.
lpperl7@reddit
Correct me if I'm wrong but I've heard there was actually a Douglas plane that did that accidentally?
Mister_Cornetto@reddit
I will always upvote posts about Sinsheim, a truly wonderful museum and a great day out
oneseason2000@reddit
Just happened upon it while driving from Munich to Paris. Saw the Concord or Tupolev from the road and came back for a look. Best detour of the trip.
kitakun@reddit
definitely going there during summer! thanks for the tip
JamieAmpzilla@reddit
It’s quite the quirky place! Fun and really extensive, though.
If you go there by train from Heidelberg, don’t do what I did. The train is sometimes made of a forward and rearward sets of cars going to two different locations- the train splits on the way. Get in the correct set of cars!
WWYDWYOWAPL@reddit
lol DB loves doing that. Nearly had a heart attack trying to get from Frankfurt to Brussels when they split the train with me on the wrong side 🤣
Nightstalker1993@reddit (OP)
I took a 4 hours train ride with 3 connections to get there, luckily the trains I needed to take didn't split. But definitely had heard of some that do 😂
Jezzer111@reddit
Do the forward canards deploy and retract randomly?
Nightstalker1993@reddit (OP)
Sadly they don't 😂
Professional-Foot-99@reddit
I was there a few weeks ago. AMAZING collection! I geeked out hard there. They had all the cars I on my wall as a kid. Also, If you look at the periscope while in the sub, it has the tupolev in its crosshairs.
Nightstalker1993@reddit (OP)
Yeah was a fun suprise! Took a video of it but can't post a video here.
TheGhostPelican@reddit
I hate when they display aircraft on stilts or hung from ceilings. Being up close is so much better.
Nightstalker1993@reddit (OP)
You can walk in. And it's not really that high.