TOWARDS THE END of the 20-minute drive from central Belgrade to Nikola Tesla airport, travellers with time to spare can explore the inside of a huge steel and glass doughnut. A curious piece of architecture, the Aeronautical Museum Belgrade appears to have split: as you pass by, you are separated from the museum by fences and then an aeroplane graveyard - a jumble of planes and helicopters that track the history of Serbia's (and the former Yugoslavia's) - air force all the way back to the Second World War. Perhaps the museum was once going to be bigger. Perhaps it's a marketing ploy: 'if this is what we leave outside, just imagine the stuff we keep out of the alternating summer rainstorms and new year's blizzards.'
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