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Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 6:27 am
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The Museum is located near Zurich (10 minutes with a local train). It's not that big, only two hangars, but it's well maintained and hosts some rare or even unique planes.
www.airforcecenter.ch/

Among other things they keep a small fleet of Ju 52 flying. From March to November the Ju-52 takes off every Saturday:
www.airforcecenter.ch/...31&L=1

Last week I was there with a friend, I spend most of the time as "tourist guide", but I took some picture on the first hangar too:

Bleriot XI by Massimo Foti, on Flickr

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Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 6:28 am Post subject: Re: Dubendorf. Air Museum
Dewoitine D-27 by Massimo Foti, on Flickr

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Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 6:29 am Post subject: Re: Dubendorf. Air Museum
This model was very popular but, as far as I know, very few planes survived: Fokker C V.E by Massimo Foti, on Flickr

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Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 7:40 pm
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Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 4:19 am Post subject: Re: Dubendorf. Air Museum
I bet very few ever heard about this one: Hafeli DH-1 by Massimo Foti, on Flickr

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Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 4:57 am Post subject: Re: Dubendorf. Air Museum
Another Hafeli: Hafeli DH-5 by Massimo Foti, on Flickr

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Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 3:01 pm
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- Massimo_Foti

I bet very few ever heard about this one:

Hafeli DH-1 by Massimo Foti, on Flickr

Neat aircraft. This is the first time I saw that they were already testing the twin tail, parallel to one another, as far back as World War 1.

It looks really similar to an Fe2b but it has the twin boom and quad wheel undercarriage instead of a tricycle landing carriage.

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Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 5:20 pm Post subject: Re: Dubendorf. Air Museum
Being Italian, the DH-1 looks to me like a scaled down Caproni Ca.3: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caproni_Ca.3 The Caproni was, of course, much bigger and had 3 engines. There is one in the USA: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...4P-003.jpg Massimo

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Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 5:34 am Post subject: Re: Dubendorf. Air Museum
K+W C-35 by Massimo Foti, on Flickr

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Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 5:35 am Post subject: Re: Dubendorf. Air Museum
Another Swuiss plane. After WW II many of these were upgraded with turbo-prop engines: K+W C-3603-1 by Massimo Foti, on Flickr

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Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 5:36 am Post subject: Re: Dubendorf. Air Museum
MS 406 by Massimo Foti, on Flickr

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