Must visit Sinsheim and Speyer some time. driven past many times though.
Only soviet era plane I’ve been in was the Tu144 at Samara State Aerospace University “museum”.
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU-4KnrSVJw[/video]
Jeez that’s looking a bit sick these days. Electrics were all powered up the day we went, with students doing lab work or something.
Seeing the pics in he first post also reminds me of a Sukhoi that they had in a back yard on campus, that I have no idea how they got it there (probably built buildings round it). Vaguley recall it was a swing wing prototype of something that was normally fixed (I’d have to find my ye olde worlde photos to try to work out what).