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Travels with Harry - a Photo Journal—Germany
 
Bombardier CL-215Harry gets a shock to see a Canadair/Bombardier CL-215 aerial tanker on display at the Auto & Technology Museum in Sinsheim. Owned by an individual, and supported by donations, the museum has an amazing collection of aircraft, automobiles, military equipment and machinery of all types. While suited for a variety of civil and military missions, the CL-215, and its turboprop sibling the CL-415, are the only aircraft designed and built specifically for aerial firefighting.



Below right, Harry checks out the Tupolev Tu-144 SST at the museum. The first commercial SST to fly, the TU-144 is positioned in landing configuration on the museum roof - right in front of the BA/Aerospatiale Concorde.








While this trip to Germany was a strictly-business, whirlwind two-day tour, Harry and his friends nonetheless found a little time for recreation. Below left, Harry gets his first taste of Stuttgarter Hofbrau beer, in the Hofbrau's tent at the Stuttgart Spring Beer Festival.

Although smaller than the beer festival held in September, this is still no small affair, and the beer drinking goes on for weeks. Several different breweries set up in "tents" the size of soccer fields.









In the tent, below right, Harry sees Germans and Chinese tourists alike, dancing on the tables. The folding tables and benches are specially designed to bear the extra weight of beer-sodden revelers, and are guaranteed not to collapse under the strain.



A band at the far end of the tent plays English-language pop and country standards, while in other tents German folk music may prevail.






Scattered among the various beer tents are carnival rides and lavishly-decorated midway booths.

While these are similar to the travelling American carnivals Harry's used to, everything is larger and more lavish, and the booths, below, consume vastly more kilowatt hours than their American counterparts.


















Below right, Harry spies the schmuck center. This is much more intriguing in English than in German.












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29 April, 2006


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