Readers of last month's FlyPast will remember our feature about the pristine B-25 Mitchell based at the Flying Bulls in Salzburg, Austria. FlyPast had been kindly offered the opportunity to fly in the aircraft to try to gain a small semblance of understanding of what the experience would have been like for the airmen who operated them in World War Two, but on arrival there was an unexpected bonus: it was immediately apparent that we had stumbled upon an incredible hidden gem of a museum and a collection of aircraft that richly deserved their own separate article and so this feature focuses on the Hangar-7 museum itself. After landing at the airport in beautiful Salzburg in early 2022 for a three-day visit, I was met by Raimund 'Ray' Riedmann, the charismatic Flight Operations Manager and Chief Pilot of the Flying Bulls fixed-wing aircraft who joined in 2000. First we travelled to the other side of the airfield to the Flying Bulls' Hangar-8 where from early 2004 the collection's aircraft have been maintained and from which operations are conducted.
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