We visited the Hermeskeil Air Museum on our way to sightseeing in Trier one day after we saw a sign advertising it along the Autobahn, and stopped in to take a look around. You can take a good look at it for yourself on the Google Map satellite photo just northeast of Hermeskeil, Germany. I found the link to the translated home page of, “airventure.de/hermeskeil” which is posted below. I didn’t take many pictures that day, but if you look at the link it has grown quite a bit over the years and is a very nice high quality and professional Air Museum today – 17 years later:
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- Inside the Air Museum was this display of a dummy simulating an ejection from a fighter aircraft in the Martin-Baker ejection seat – like the one in the F-4E “Phantom II” that I used to fly.
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- David waves to the camera when something else catches his attention at that moment, while standing with our friend’s daughter on a cockpit viewing stand inside the exhibit building at the Hermeskeil Air Museum.
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- David waves for the camera beside our friend’s daughter on the cockpit viewing stand of a F-4C “Phantom II” on the exhibit grounds of the Hermeskeil Air Museum in Germany.
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- A MiG-21 “Fishbed” on display with a transport aircraft behind it, on a beautiful summer day at the Hermeskeil Air Museum in Germany.
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- Another MiG-21 “Fishbed” along with a F-105 “Thunderchief” or “Thud” behind it, while a transport aircraft awaits reassembly after being brought to the Hermeskeil Air Museum.
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- A F-4C “Phantom II” stands silently while a MiG-23 “Flogger” and a transport aircraft await reassembly – viewed from the wing of a MiG-21 “Fishbed.”
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- We stopped at a nearby village while sightseeing and took some pictures beside this fountain – here David pretends to play an instrument along with the two musicians.
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- This fountain bubbling into the air made for a picture perfect setting and David’s photo with the two musical sculptures turned out very well.
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- Here’s a photo of me posing along with the two musicians at the fountain in a nearby village on a beautiful summer day – and they didn’t skip a beat.
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- David sips his drink while seated at a McDonalds’ picnic table in the pedestrian zone or “Fussgängerzone” in downtown Trier.
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- A view of downtown Trier from atop the Porta Nigra or “Black Gate”, which is a still standing original Roman gate into the then walled city of Trier – 2000 years ago.
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