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2019-10-13 01:01
in Flying, Nflying
While in Prague, I realized a bit late, but not too late, that there was a good military airplane museum slightly out of town. It was a quick enough cab ride to the collection, and I arrived just around 13:00, which turned out to be barely enough to visit everything (closure time was posted as 18:00, but actually all the hangars closed at 17:30).
Most of the planes were at the main location, a few were in another location around 1km walk away (not super convenient). The collection had a nice mixture of planes, including the most soviet planes I've seen in a single museum:
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Most of the planes were in hangars:
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![for a change, that was a museum with proper warnings :) for a change, that was a museum with proper warnings :)](/blogimg/41/thumb1024_3419_20191013_Prague_Military_Aviation_Museum.jpg)
for a change, that was a museum with proper warnings :)
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![very early airliner with only 6 person capacity very early airliner with only 6 person capacity](/blogimg/42/thumb1024_3429_20191013_Prague_Military_Aviation_Museum.jpg)
very early airliner with only 6 person capacity
![interesting, this plane had radiator cooling lines on its wing interesting, this plane had radiator cooling lines on its wing](/blogimg/43/thumb1024_3433_20191013_Prague_Military_Aviation_Museum.jpg)
interesting, this plane had radiator cooling lines on its wing
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The secondary location looked close on the map, but was actually a fair walk away on city streets:
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And with just a few minutes to spare before they closed he hangars 30mn earlier than then expected closing time, I barely finished the museum. It was well worth the visit. |