Panoramas
A Virtual Visit to Our Aerospace Exhibition
“From Ballooning to the Berlin Airlift” shows the important developments and events from two centuries of aviation history. More than forty aircraft and other major exhibits, along with numerous mementoes and eyewitness accounts bring the history of air travel to life.
The tour starts on the third floor with the section on ballooning and airships, and ends a floor higher with presentations on the Berlin Airlift and air travel in the two Germanies. Along the way, exhibits large and small, spectacular and unique, document the colourful story of civil and military aviation in Germany. A section on aircraft engineering on the third floor supplements the chronological tour.
The nine panoramas allow unusual insights into the different sections of the exhibition. You will be fascinated by the close-ups of rare planes such as the famous Junkers Ju 52 (with an exclusive glimpse inside), the Bücker Bü 131 sport biplane and the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter.
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The Stairwell
The third floor is given over to the history of German aviation from the first hot-air balloons to the end of the First World War. When you take a look across the stairwell, the first thing that catches your eye is the radiant yellow Bücker Bü 131 sport and training biplane built in 1939, suspended in an acrobatic climb. Above it hangs the world’s last surviving Horten Ho II L flying wing.
The beginnings of military aviation are represented by parts of various aircraft, including the armoured fuselage of a Junkers J.I, and by a bomb-damaged boiler from a steam locomotive.
The Stairwell
Johannisthal – Cradle of German Aviation
Aircraft Engineering – Engines, Landing Gear, Propellers