'Flying cigars', 'luxury liners of the air', 'giants of the skies': ever since the invention of airships they have sparked people's imagination. People are also the main focus of the Zeppelin Museum at [...] passenger cabins once built for the Hindenburg will marvel at the luxurious interior design of this flying hotel. Detailed models as well as films and photographs recount the history of airship aviation from

models. An area is devoted to flight simulators that allow visitors to experience what it is like to fly different aircraft. Since 2018 the museum has also housed a collection of 76 cars created by the Bertone

the textile industry then became the engine of industrialisation. The beginning of this was the “flying weaver’s shuttle” invented by John Kay in 1733. This meant that weavers no longer pulled through

world forever and plays a vital part in shaping our future. Feel the wind in your face as helicopter´s fly past and duck as World War II explodes around you! The ‘Glass Roots’ interactive gallery houses a

opens out onto a gigantic white bowl lying in a valley; an object from another world that resembles a flying saucer. The "bowl" has a diameter of 100 metres and is one of the largest moveable radio telescopes

twisted thin silk thread into strong yarn. One of the forerunners of mechanisation was John Kay’s flying shuttle which he invented in 1733. This speeded up weaving considerably as the weavers no longer

The dream to fly spans many millennia of human history. At the end of the 19th century, the Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin provided courageous aviation pioneers with a popular area for testing new types of

Second World War, the jet age and arms reduction. In addition to the aircraft there are examples of flying suits, aircraft engines, anti-aircraft guns, ground-to-air missile defences and radar systems. A

centre of Linkőping, named after Carl Cederstrőm (1867-1918), the ‘flying baron’, who trained with Louis Blériot (1872-1936), set up a flying school on the site in 1912, and died in a crash in the Gulf of [...] aviation technology and the theory of flying, and aviation during the Cold War. Visitors can see a flight laboratory and the workings of a control tower, and experience flying on a simulator. A feature of the [...] of Bothnia. The airfield remains a base for jet training. Displays cover the development of flying from the early twentieth century to the present. The main sections deal with the pioneers of aviation, the

for expansion. It occupies an exhibition hall dating from 1913 and extends across what was once the flying field of the aircraft factory in Speyer, which was one of the largest in Germany during the First

Calshot Spit was the base for the Royal Air Force’s ‘Sunderland’ flying boats. The museum’s outstanding exhibit is a ‘Sandringham’ S.25 flying boat, a conversion for civilian purposes of a military ‘Sunderland’ [...] of which 22,000 were built, 800 of them at Southampton. Southampton was the base until 1958 for flying boat services that linked the United Kingdom with distant parts of the British Empire, and during

his mother Dorothy Shuttleworth continued to develop the collection. All the aircraft are kept in flying condition and the maintenance and restoration workshops are open to visitors. Hangers contain many [...] 20th century. The museum’s Blériot XI biplane from 1909 is the world's oldest aeroplane that still flies. Among other aircraft are an Avro 504K from 1918 and a 1941 Spitfire. Cars, motorbikes, steam engines

opened in 1925. The section through the mountain range is 15.4 km long, but the distance as the crow flies between the stations at either end is no more than 3.5 km. The system of loops and hairpin bends is

salt was extracted from six chambers up to 66 m high, that form a celebrated international venue for flying model aircraft. The Urimea mine, some 40 m below the Mihai workings, was begun in 1938 and worked

collection has been developed by his son and grandson. It now contains some 70 aircraft and many of them fly regularly. The displays are in large hangers at the aerodrome. The first section deals with the pioneers [...] final section focuses on the interwar period in popular air displays. Visitors can book places to fly in a selection of vintage aircraft.

recognised their potential for road transport. During the First World War he worked on engines for flying boats and for tanks, and in 1915 established his consultancy Engine Patents Ltd, which began operation

the lakeside west of the Pütnitz estate, where aircraft were repaired and pilots were trained in flying boats and other aircraft. Soviet armed forces were based there from 1954 to 1991. The museum is on

Amsterdam. In 1966 Philips opened an interactive science centre in a concrete building in the shape of a flying saucer designed by the architect L Ch Kalff. It attracted many visitors in its early years, but fashions

appalling by today’s standards, yet each worker would produce thousands of nibs each day by hand, using fly presses to cut and shape strips of steel. The history of the Pen Trade is told through the collection

from 1954, and remained in touch will the railway until his death. His enthusiasm for railways and flying extended into promoting excursions for his workpeople at Retford to the Farnborough Air Show in Surrey [...] in 1958 by a new main line diesel engine. Pegler was deeply impressed when he saw the locomotive Flying Scotsman at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley when he was only four years of age in 1924. [...] locomotives in 1968, but Pegler played an important role in reversing that decision. In 1969 Pegler with Flying Scotsman embarked on a government-backed tour of the United States intended to promote British business