In a very heavy snowstorm, I figured what better way to spend the day but inside, with big picture windows to appreciate it. What better place to do so than the Deutsches Museum's new annex in the village of Schlessheim. There was one of the earliest airfields in Germany at this site. Historically, it hosted flying the flying club and pilot training facilities for the pre-WWI Luftwaffe. Following the war, despite efforts to turn it into a repair facility, it was closed under the Treaty of Versailles. While it served a civil airport for Munich for a few years, it was eventually supplanted by another airfield closer to Munich. Schlessheim had a more useful purpose anyway, as it became the site of clandestine pilot training in contravention of the Treaty of Versailles.

Lately, the original hangar and an entirely new impressive structure have been constructed to house many of the aviation exhibits of the Deutsches Museum. Here are a few shots of the cool aircraft at the Museum. Interestingly, the airfield is about 500m from the sprawling retirement palace of the Wittelsbachs at Schlessheim. I have included pictures of MiG 21, MiG 23, Saab Draaken and an He-110 Bomber. There were some absolutely cool other aircraft that I took pictures of including: F-4 Phantom, Euro Rocket, Hindustan Merkut, VFW VTOL aircraft and an Antonov AN-2.