Flight in a Junkers Ju-52 (now with link to video)

[TobyV]

Photos from a 1hr round trip from Dübendorf in "Tante Ju" (Auntie Ju) reg. HB-HOP. This was a collective present from my colleagues from last year's birthday and was already postponed once from April due to the weather. No such problems today. Video to follow once I work out how to not make Windows Movie Maker crash.












Rapperswil


Lake Zurich




Walensee (lake partly obscured by mountains)




























Flat green area was where I was cross country skiing earlier in the year


Ski jumps at Einsiedeln


Kloster (monastery) at Einsiedeln






Parked back outside the amusingly named "Flab" museum. Flab is what the Swiss call "Flak" (Fliegerabwehrkanone)

[Garry Russell]

Very nice Toby...great weather

Pity about the paint job though

Thanks for sharing

[TobyV]

Yup lots of advertising sponsorship. Oh well, keeps it flying!

[FlyTexas]

Pity about the paint job though

At first glance I thought the bird images on the wings were oil streaks from the engines. Need to get my eyes checked. Looks like you had a great time Toby. Thanks very much for sharing the pics!

Brian

[DaveB]

Nice to see you weren't made to parachute out and invade someone with that terrain below

Nice shots Toby
ATB
DaveB

[Airspeed]

Thanks Toby,
Like me, you blaze away with the camera and return without any evidence of your own presence!
They were using "Real World" scenery too - bonus!
Intrigued by the Flack museum, what's inside? They had plenty to choose from, with all those aircraft they interned 39/45.

[Filonian]

Many thanks for sharing Toby - looks like you had a great time.



Graham

[TobyV]

Thanks Toby,
Like me, you blaze away with the camera and return without any evidence of your own presence!
They were using "Real World" scenery too - bonus!
Intrigued by the Flack museum, what's inside? They had plenty to choose from, with all those aircraft they interned 39/45.

I'm the guy in the white t-shirt in pic 21. I have a couple of others but didn't think they'd be of interest here!

FLAB museum has two halls. The first one contains mostly propeller driven aircraft, some German, some Swiss and a couple of simulators. The second hall has a very high percentage of British content (Venom, Vampire, Hunter, RR Engines etc) plus a couple of home-grown attempts at a Jet fighter and a Mirage or 2.

[Airspeed]

Thanks Toby,
Hey, that's not you, he's not holding a camera!

[VC10]

Way back in the eighties I remember when the first restored JU-52 was on finals for LGW, the Tower cleared a BCAL One-Eleven to

"Line up and hold after the landing Junkers".

Quick as a flash someone on frequency said

"Cor- you don't hear that very often these days!"


Paul