Luftfahrtsammlung

[Biber]

Just stumbled across this:

SPOILS OF WAR N 5 1998

Scroll down to "museum Losses"

Enjoy

B

[Der Grüne Flieger]

Biber,

My guess is the Russians took everything they could find.

It always amazes me to read about collections like this that are found. Some poor old farmer is out digging in his field and he finds the lost treasure of the Inca's, or something of that strip. Does he get to keep it,.... NOOOOOO! The government, in their infinite wisdom, swoops in and cleans him out.

Phil

[Varese2002]

The remnants of the Deutsche Luftfahrtsammlung which were found in Poland and now mostly exhibited in the museum in Cracow, have almost all no wings. From most of the machines the original wings are missing.

By the way only 2 machines came out of Poland / Cracow, that are

• an original Fokker Spinne (from 1913), which is now in the Aviodrome museum in Lelystad (Netherlands)

• an original Jeannin Taube, beautifully restaurated and now exhibited in Berlin

The other machines all remain in Cracow, some to be restored. Some of them are finished in Polish colours (after 1918), because examples of this type were used by the Poles in the Polish-Russo war 1918-1920.

Kees