Flak towers Vienna

[Simon Schatz]

Nick! The first 70 meters were awful because we took a freight elevator that was fixed next to the tower. The scramble to the 136m high top was very easy as I go hiking here in Austria for really many years.

Maybe interesting links:

http://www.ww2sites.com/index.php?ac...mp&page=atwien

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flak_tower

http://www.thirdreichruins.com/vienna.htm

http://www.geheimprojekte.at/t_flaktuerme.html

http://www.duncanjdsmith.com/downloa...flaktowers.pdf

book about flaktowers:

http://www.amazon.com/Hamburg-1940-1.../dp/0764303988

Cheers, Simon

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by Simon Schatz

Nick! The first 70 meters were awful because we took a freight elevator that was fixed next to the tower. The scramble to the 136m high top was very easy as I go hiking here in Austria for really many years.

Cheers, Simon

I become frozen with terror a lot sooner than 70 metres!

[George Hopp]

Well, then you're doing well, Nick. The magic height for testing paratrooper's fear of height is, or was in the late 1960s, 20 feet. I am uncomfortable at height, but if it has to be done then I will do it.

Superb pictures, Simon.

[ChrisS]

Fantastic pictures Simon, they're sort of ugly/beautiful at the same time in a strange way.

I can't help wondering if any of those twin 128 mm flak guns still survive?

Cheers

Chris

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by ChrisS

I can't help wondering if any of those twin 128 mm flak guns still survive?

Chris

From what I remember of Edward B. Westermann's "Flak: German Anti-aircraft Defenses 1914-1945" they built very few of them (I think he gave a number) because they were so demanding of raw materials. Oh, and extremely heavy!