But, undoubtedly, the "prima donna" of the museum is the Boeing 747, hanging around 25 metres from the ground. You can go inside it, inside every corner in the plane and you can even walk on one wing (that is what I am doing in the picture below). When you finish your visit, you can go down using the stairs or a slide (something extremely funny, which I tried four times). But before and after visiting it, the same question comes to my mind: how the hell they have taken such a huge thing up there...
But also the Antonov deserves a visit: after all, it was the largest cargo plane in the world and it has this strange charm of the Soviet Union days. If you watch the video inside, you understand why it needed five pilots: it was amazingly unstable for a plane. There are some fighters (see picture below), a ship, two helicopters (one of them huge) and a submarine. Wow, what could I say about the submarine? It was designed for 28 people and one really feels claustrofobic inside, there is not much space for anything, everything is together and there are not many exits. I just imagine living there surrounded by the ocean and I suddenly begin to love my job.
But Speyer also has a remarkable city centre, around the Maximilianstrasse, which heads up to the cathedral, one of the most impressive I have ever been (for example, much better than the cathedral in Mainz). To sum up, Speyer is an unknown place outside Germany but you will really enjoy it if you decide to spend there a day.
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