Swedish Air Force Museum

 Jan arranged for us all to have lunch at the cafe at the airport Museum this was a delightful place and the food was top notch. I had a wild boar burger with gravy and mashed potatoes. Leslie had a big shrimp sandwich with all kinds of layers of goodness. There's a wide variety of aircraft most that I had never seen before as well as displays on preparedness for Swedes during the Cold War. They had anti aircraft missiles for very high altitude planes. They also had a DC-3 that was shot down in 1957 with eight crew on board. It was doing reconnaissance for the Swedes on the Russians.  The Russians shot it down killing all 8. It was 300 feet below the water of the Baltic Sea when they found it in 2003.  They decided to recover it to try and retrieve the bodies. The wife of the pilot is still alive and she waited forever never knowing what happened to her husband. They found him and his wedding ring and she finally got closure when they buried him at a ceremony. The ring is on display at the museum as well as the wreckage of the plane.

My wild boar burger

 The Kids Table

The adults table

Taking a break between displays

An old biplane

The first two creatures to go up in a balloon in the 1700s was a duck and a chicken

The Insignia on a anti-submarine helicopter

A tiny little seaplane with an extra propeller on the top as a generator

 All chrome and copper flash

The Wings could attach and fold over to the side

Watch out for a bird strike there's too much glass on this one

A jet with an auxiliary gas tank and the bottom

They had different helmets hear each one having creases from where the bullets bounced off

A big two rotor Hewey

The skis were made for landing and snow and they look like funny big snow boots

The whole gang is here. I am taking the picture

Now Leslie is taking the picture

A seaplane period it head stanchions on the side that you can tie off to a boat

Loose lips sink ships

A big high altitude missile

Another shot of the Huey

This is a marker of a Swedish living room. The interrupted the TV to talk about pensions with the Russians

The Swedish colours

The crumpled side of the DC3

Some of the debris that they recovered along with the wreckage

Holes from shrapnel and bullets from being shut down

The wind was corroded from being underwater for so long

The propeller was bent from the impact

Personal items that were recovered

The pilot's gold wedding ring

I thought this was brilliant. This is a station where you scoop your compostable food into one area stack your dishes up and it minimizes the extra effort that the restaurant has to go to to clean up