I got a chance to visit the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany during Spring Break of my last semester at Georgia Tech as an undergraduate student in 2006. The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter above is one of the magnificent aircraft on display there. You can easily walk around the aircraft and walk up the steps to peer into the cockpit. There are also pictures of an LN-3 Inertial Navigation System for the F-104, Me 262 Schwalbe jet fighter, Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet rocket interceptor, Henschel Hs 293 radio-guided bomb, Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter, Junkers Ju 52 tri-motor (c.f. 1929 Ford Tri-Motor that I wrote about yesterday), V-2 Rocket that has cutaway details that you can walk around from nose to tail, and other rocket motors cut down to reveal their inner components. Different views of some of these aircraft are available on my recent posts of photos from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM) and the NASM Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.
Also, there’s a photo of Friedrich Kaufmann’s Trumpet Player Automaton from the early 19th century, which reminds me of the Jaquet-Droz Automata that Y and I encountered in Switzerland in 2011 (reminding me that I need to post photos of them).
Lockheed F-104 Starfighter
LN-3 Inertial Navigation System
Messerschmitt Bf 109
Junkers Ju 52
Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe and Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet
Henschel Hs 293
V-2 Rocket with Cutaway Details
Miscellaneous Rocket Motors and Cutaways
Friedrich Kaufmann’s Trumpet Player Automaton (early 19th century)
