An excursion to the Säve Airport: (March 24, 2004)

This day I went, together with some people (mostly from my building), to the Säve Airport here in Göteborg. We visited an underground (in a mountain) nuclear proof bunker. It was used in times of war to put plains and stuff stand-by. Now there are still some planes, yets and helicopters. The airport is the RyanAir base, by the way. They are going to use the bunker to build a huge amusement park with all kinds of interesting aspects: it's a museum, interactive, informative, amusing, exciting... That's the plan at least... Their plans are quite ambitious, so I am very curious how it will work out. They want to open already next year, the 15th of May. For more information, you can check www.aeroseum.se.

You can see Bernd's photos by clicking on his name.

The entrance of the airport area, on the other side of the RyanAir terminal.

A 80 cm thick concrete door to protect the impact of a nuclear bomb.

Amunition storage.

In these corridors air planes could be put stand-by in the case of war.

A generator that could supply electricity to the bunker in case of an electricity drop-out.

We could climb some jets and helicopters.

Movie: Marcel@superman & Sarah@Batman (4 MB) You don't, I repeat you DO NOT want to see this movie. Believe me! Downloading and watching it is on your own risk. :P

The signature of the present king's grand father when he opened the bunker on 15 May 1955.

Dutch helicopters!

At least the air is sharp. :P

The control room.

And then back home. Well, I went to my Swedish class. I was only one hour late... :S

Damn, I ate the sun...