Tuesday, August 6, 2024

The Model, Military or Railway tour of '24 - Part 1

Riding motorcycle and visiting military museums or railway museums or heritage railways or any scale modelling attraction s in Sweden and Finland

I'm working at a museum,  and I love visiting museums. - And especially those exhibiting military-, railway- or modelling items, or a combination them. Last year I had an early summer-vacation in early June and went riding my motorcycle northwards in Norway.  I planned to visit so many military museums as possible on my way.  There was only one 'problem'; They're usually not open on weekdays so early (not in the main tourist season though). Don't worry if you plan a vacation to Norway as many of the 'main military museums' are. But last summer I planned to visit the smaller ones on my way:

Riding motorcycle and visiting military museums or railway museums or heritage railways or any scale modelling attraction s in Sweden and Finland
- Not very successful...

This year I'm having a later summer vacation and I'm still riding motorcycle. I'm planning a different route though. I'm not turning this blog into a travel-blog, but I plan to daily visit some either military, railway or modelling related museums or attractions for a week, and will post brief updates of some of the impressions which are related to the theme of this blog (just using my phone). I hope you will follow me on this tour this week. 
The first leg from home was pretty long. More than 600 km. Then you need a 'pit-stop' on the way. If you ever pass Värmskog in Sweden, I highly recommend you to stop at Värmskog Kafé. Their shrimp sandwiches are legendary! 
And they serves even larger sandwiches than this.. 

So what's this tour's first stop?

The Finnish Air Force Museum

Riding motorcycle and visiting military museums or railway museums or heritage railways or any scale modelling attraction s in Sweden and Finland
Riding motorcycle and visiting military museums or railway museums or heritage railways or any scale modelling attraction s in Sweden and Finland
Riding motorcycle and visiting military museums or railway museums or heritage railways or any scale modelling attraction s in Sweden and Finland
Riding motorcycle and visiting military museums or railway museums or heritage railways or any scale modelling attraction s in Sweden and Finland
Riding motorcycle and visiting military museums or railway museums or heritage railways or any scale modelling attraction s in Sweden and Finland
Riding motorcycle and visiting military museums or railway museums or heritage railways or any scale modelling attraction s in Sweden and Finland
Riding motorcycle and visiting military museums or railway museums or heritage railways or any scale modelling attraction s in Sweden and Finland
Riding motorcycle and visiting military museums or railway museums or heritage railways or any scale modelling attraction s in Sweden and Finland
Riding motorcycle and visiting military museums or railway museums or heritage railways or any scale modelling attraction s in Sweden and Finland
Interesting camouflagepattern on these hangar doors:
Riding motorcycle and visiting military museums or railway museums or heritage railways or any scale modelling attraction s in Sweden and Finland
This is a Finnish Fouga Magister, but the Katangese Air Force also operated 3 such aircrafts. Even if it was a trainer it could be armed, and Katanga used them for ground attacks on UN troops
Riding motorcycle and visiting military museums or railway museums or heritage railways or any scale modelling attraction s in Sweden and Finland
It's also very interesting to see what museums like this have in their museum shops:
But the one thing I wanted most was not for sale. The content was though...
Riding motorcycle and visiting military museums or railway museums or heritage railways or any scale modelling attraction s in Sweden and Finland

Time to move on and visit something else tomorrow. 

6 comments:

  1. I wonder what the Katanganese markings were on their planes.

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    1. It was a roundel in the Katangan flag's colors with 3 Katangan crosses in the middle. A Katangan cross was made of 1kg cooper and was used as a currency. It was also used as a symbol in the State of Katanga.
      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katangese_Air_Force

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  2. Interesting photos, thanks for posting them.
    Alan Tradgardland

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  3. Nice post, really interesting. Liked it. T, Norway

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