Peter, Last fall, I went to Germany with the MBCA Factory tour. Also made a stop at the Technik Musium at Sinsheim, not to far from Stuttgart.
They have a Concorde and a Tu-144 on display on stilts - Full size - Spiral staircases allow one to go to the interior of each plane. Three TU-144's were built, and two crashed. They grounded this one. The Tu-144 was dismantled in Russia and transported by barges. Quite a feat. Many many cars and military equipment on display. Here is the link to the Sinsheim Musuem. Unfortunately, it's in German. But the pix are quite interesting. The English version is still under construction. http://www.technik-museum.de/museum_sinsheim_deutsch.html Take care, Chuck Phoenix On Aug 17, 2008, at 2:41 PM, Peter Frederick wrote: > > > Ditto for the SST, by the way. Turns out it was physically > impossible to build one that would do the job and make money, even at > ten cents a gallon for fuel (what a joke that is today!). The > Concorde never made a dime -- and the Russians parked the superior TU > 144 pretty fast due to horrendous fuel consumption. > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
