03.09.2020: Another aviation related topic to report from my holidays. One of our friends in Denmark is a hobby pilot too. He owns a share in a Cessna 172, which until recently was based in a shed on a farm strip in North Zealand. That was however not so convenient, as there is no gas available there, so they always had to fly to Roskilde for fuel. Now however they managed to get a spot in a proper hangar in Grønholt, which has a paved runway and fuel.
We agreed to meet there, so that he could show us the new home of their plane. Grønholt is a privately owned airfield, which has seen busier days in the past, like most small airfields around the world. It is strictly PPR, and normaly not open to visitors, but I guess I could get a permit to land there the next time we fly to Denmark to visit our friends.
The runway looks quite ok, wide and long enough (700/ 850 m) for a SportCruiser.
The taxiway is however “out of service”, which doesn’t matter with the little traffic they have.
The buildings look impressive from a distance, they are huge, but mostly rented our for other use.
Really huge is the hangar, which was designed to house a de Havilland Dash-7, a four engined STOL turboprop plane. That’s definitely big enough for a bunch of Cessnas.
06.09.2020: And yet another aviation related topic from my holidays. I went to visit the Technical Museum of Denmark, which is located in Helsingør, North Zealand. I have been there a few years ago, but at that time they had just moved to the new location, so many things were not quite finished. In addition the weather wasn’t too nice, and I wanted to take pictures with my new camera so that I could compare them with the pictures from my previous visit.
What I really like about the museum is the focus on Danish aviation, they have quite many Danish designed planes or planes which served with the Danish AIr Force.
Their most important exhibits are however numerous planes and other objects built by J.C.H. Ellehammer, including his “helicopter” from , which seems to have made some hops.
The museum also houses exhibits on many other technologies than planes, as well as special exihbits such as on the Danish Falck rescue services…
…or on electric cars, whose development was pushed in Denmark long before they became the focus of large scale car manufacturers. The one below from 1940 was a delivery vehicle for a large department store,…
…these two were small truck from the 1960s to the 1980s…
…and these two from the late 1980s. Over 5’000 of the one shown on the left were built, there still is one you can see regularely in the town I live, and a friend of us also own and uses one.
The only thing they never really got right was the design, which is surprising as Denmark is quite famous for it’s design.
There is also a special exhibit on industrial robots…
…and last but not least they have the Cyklotron of Niels Bohr, the famous Danish scientist on display. And they even run it on special events.
