Now this blew me of my socks!
When visiting the Glider club with my samba that always served there one of the pilots took me in a motorglider to make some tours above the factory…
A real dazzling 24 minutes in front of me!
Take off is just a little different as the regular taken larger aircrafts like 747 en 737 etc…
First shot from the air was BBT’s own Iveco delivery truck!
ah, we’re coming close! What a sight….
This is FE or what used to be TE, simply said the Research center… do You recognise the private test track in front of it?
I think this is one of my best overview pics, You can see very clearly the “Autostadt” bottom left, and almost the entire production plant!
or this gives whats’ last picture didn’t show…. do You recognise the Old power plant or “Altes Kraftwerk” ?
Here You do… for me my master picture….:)
Looks like they have solar panels on the power plant, now what about that?????
Time to fly back, I was very quiet, not my normal thing to do, but too many emotions, too overwhelming. what a crazy afternoon!
Back to the ground! Pascal awaited me, for a mandatory pick in the cockpit, yes it was me who took the pictures, nobody else….
Now don’t get whining that its always others who can do things like this, this is easy…. and for real BBT Bloggers here is The Golden Tip!
If You like to see the factory from the air, (like me) go to the Stude Flugplatz (this is a very small Glider airport from the Wolfsburg glider plane club) about 20km from Wolfsburg. ask them to have a flight as a passenger with their motorsiegelflugzeug… price is so moderate at 1.90Euro pro minute, what makes I paid the whole whopping 50 euro for being 24 min in the air… timeless memories…
Most pilots are ex VW workers who do know details from the factory that only insiders do know… the pilot I had worked in the railway dept (loading and unloading trains) and told me they do have 14 locomotives only at the factory!!!! Woehaa! That’s even more than my scale trains back in the day!
All information on this link, You even can book a ticket or somebody else, but think about it for a proper tour over the factory You might need 25 to 30 min flight!
http://www.aeroclub-wolfsburg.de/segelflug/gastfl%C3%BCge/
Let us know if You made it!!!!