Here's a sight you don't see every day

[Micha]

The Technik Museum in Speyer managed to buy a Russian Buran space ship prototype. During the last week they shipped it up the river Rhine from Rotterdam to Speyer. Yesterday it passed our town. Here are some pics:
I had myself placed in front of this nice hotel in Oestrich-Winkel:

By balrog747, shot with E-510 at 2008-04-10

Here it comes around the bend - the old crane you see on the right is from 1745 and was used to hoist wine barrels on board of ships.

By balrog747, shot with E-510 at 2008-04-10

To make this an on-topic post: of course I was wearing my Poljot Buran :D

By balrog747, shot with E-510 at 2008-04-10


By balrog747, shot with E-510 at 2008-04-10


They parked the entire convoi incl. truck on the boat:

By balrog747, shot with E-510 at 2008-04-10


By balrog747, shot with E-510 at 2008-04-10

By balrog747, shot with E-510 at 2008-04-10

[Crusader]

Great photos, Micha ... a different sort of plane-spotting for sure.

[rik]

very cool, you don't realise how big it is until you see the truck cab!