On: A380 cancellations by Qantas raise new questions about the superjumbo's future

[joezydeco]

You need to visit the Lufthansa 747-200 that's on display at the Technik Museum in Speyer, Germany:

http://www.rodbearden.com/Av13/Speyer/Boeing%20747-200%20D-A...

[duxup → joezydeco]

It appears to have a slide....

[joezydeco → duxup]

It does! You hike up to visit the inside of the plane and go out on the wing, then ride a burlap sack back down. It’s a super fun museum, the only counterpart I’ve seen here in the states is the Henry Ford Museum outside Detroit.

[owenversteeg → joezydeco]

Oh that sounds great. Apparently they also have a real Buran prototype, for anyone that's still not convinced.

I'm surprised that Lufthansa would just donate them such a complete looking aircraft though. Apparently the 747-200 was still in production until 1991, and Lufthansa donated it in early 2002. They were in regular passenger use until 2016 and there are still a handful being used as cargo jets - and Lufthansa had an air cargo subsidiary that used 747-200s at the time.

[vinay427 → joezydeco]

> Henry Ford Museum outside Detroit

Well, now you've convinced me to go to the Technik Museum. The Henry Ford Museum was an institution of my childhood and one of the things everyone we knew enjoyed when they visited the area.

[Erwin → vinay427]

Close to Speyer is the Sinnsheim museum: https://sinsheim.technik-museum.de/en/

They have both the Concorde and the Concordski -- the Russian Tupolev 144.

In between those two is the Hockenheimring, with F1 will be in July this year, and the very pretty university town of Heidelberg.

[joezydeco → Erwin]

Yeah, I forgot to mention the Concorde across the street. (Sinsheim is literally on the other side of the autobahn from Speyer) They really have a unique collection of amazing stuff, each museum can take you 2-3 days to fully explore.