Since the photo at a sufficient resolution to read the text would be too big, the "table" of all the aircraft produced or worked on here is linked below:
http://www.shockcone.co.uk/forums/ffa_constr_table.JPG
For the benefit of non-German speakers, the title reads "Overview of the aircraft types built in Altenrhein aircraft works". The columns are "Type, Purpose, Weight (tons), Power in HP, Work undertaken, split into Operations and Technical Office". Änderungen means modifications and Eigenentwicklung implies it was their own development. An interesting one is of course the Lear Jet, which is actuallz based on the aborted P-16 fighter project above it (it shares more or less the same wings).
An interesting thing about this 'museum', is that most of the exhibits are actually still airworthy and flying on a fairly regular basis (with the obvious exception of the Mirage, although there is one civvie Mirage based at Payerne)
Things get moved around in this hangar a lot so the caption has nothing to do with the exhibit. The steward told me the rest of this aircraft is still stored and it could be rebuilt to static-display condition.
Camera pod for Venom/Vampire reconnaissance aircraft
..and the housing of the pod
One of the four guns carried
The impeller of the centrifugal compressor - more modern ones would have swept rather than radial vanes. Essentially, this exactly what you find in a car turbocharger, just much much bigger. Final compressor stage in the LF502/ALF507 in the BAe146/ARJ looks like this too
Close up of the camera in the nose of the Vampire, was curious to see what lens it had
Hughes AGM-65 Maverick, one of the more sophisticated weapons carried by the Hawker Hunter
Hawker Hunter, painted in Patrouille Swiss red adn white colours underneath. Seems to be partially dismantled at the moment. There was another one in the maintenance bay which was off limits to visitors.
Close up of a venturi tube, presumably powering the instruments on the little single engined French prop it was attached to (sorry forgotten exactly what it was!)
Funny to see this here!
Somewhere, there was a Javelin missing an engine! The aforementioned P-16, cancelled after an accident in favour of a Hunter purchase, would have been powered by these.
I believe these were originally developed in Trafford Park. We had one at work, providing high pressure air to a test rig, still badged "Metropolitan Vickers".
Model of the P-16, the only visually complete full size example is in the Swiss Air Force museum in Dübendorf
Mirage, mounted on large concrete blocks, presumably in case anyone fancies starting it
Lots of spare engines for Vampires and Venoms (all serviceable). The two with the smaller beige inlet covers are badged "DH Goblin" on the boss in between the covers, I can therefore only assume the ones with the larger yellow covers are Ghosts
This little "Bravo" was built here and originally painted in these colours (look suspiciously like BAe house colours of the 1980s, I asked, but the steward didn't know why, only that it had been painted like that since day 1)
No idea why there's an RAE SE5 here, I should have spent longer reading the caption!
Hunter engine bay (spare fuselage)
Interesting how the triangular intake 'evolves' into a hemispherical annulus in front of where the compressor would sit.
A Link trainer! Just round the corner was a British poster showing the number of bombing raids on German cities during WWII. I was starting to question which country I was in!
A wind tunnel model of something, not sure what though
Another wind tunnel model - interesting wing planform!
An r/c glow-engine model of the Dornier Do-X. Prior to WWII, this had been a Dornier factory and the Do-X flew from Lake Constance
r/c model of a Dassault Mirage (IIIS I think? http://old.hermannkeist.ch/mirage-lll-s ... aeger.html)
Exterior of the factory (now the Museum)
