Weekend Update 3-1-2009

[delamaize]

Dothan, Alabama. I remember that place, about 30 miniutes from Ft Rucker. I spent 5 years of my life there, although I never devloped a taste for Boiled "p-nuts" (as they spell it there)

[dclyde]

Yep, I remember Ft. Rucker all too well.  Flight School, Cobra Course, Chinook Course, a couple trips to the Cobra simulator and a short stay with the Test Board.  On and off visits over a 22 year period.  Nice quite place but extremely boreing.  Dry counties (except for the Officers Club) and, back in the day, no malls...not even in Dothan.

The most excitement I had was rolling in hot on Enterprise High School with 17 pair of rockets.  Of course that was in the Cobra simulator.

Dave

[up1950s]

Yep, I remember Ft. Rucker all too well.  Flight School, Cobra Course, Chinook Course, a couple trips to the Cobra simulator and a short stay with the Test Board.  On and off visits over a 22 year period.  Nice quite place but extremely boreing.  Dry counties (except for the Officers Club) and, back in the day, no malls...not even in Dothan.

The most excitement I had was rolling in hot on Enterprise High School with 17 pair of rockets.  Of course that was in the Cobra simulator.

Dave

We need a green smiley on top to show my envy .

[delamaize]

Yep, I remember Ft. Rucker all too well.  Flight School, Cobra Course, Chinook Course, a couple trips to the Cobra simulator and a short stay with the Test Board.  On and off visits over a 22 year period.  Nice quite place but extremely boreing.  Dry counties (except for the Officers Club) and, back in the day, no malls...not even in Dothan.

The most excitement I had was rolling in hot on Enterprise High School with 17 pair of rockets.  Of course that was in the Cobra simulator.

Dave

Yeah, not much has changed, I was in support of the flight school, worked pretty much everywhere, but spent the most of my assignment at Toth Stagefield and Allen Stagefield, watching those damn fresh pilots try not to smash TH-67's (replacement for the TH-55).

Not much has changed, most of the countys are "Wet" now, with a few exceptions, you still can't buy anything on sunday, except on post. Dothan has a Mall now, but it isn't too big.

You know, I spent 5 years there, I have climbed on, ben in, and around every modern rotoray wing aircraft the army flys, but the whole time there I never flew in a helicopter, and I still haven't.  > Although I did have a pilot freind that got me into the UH-1 IFR sim, that was fun.

[daniel_leavitt2000]

Ian, you are looking at 11+ years of oxidation. As seen in 1998:
http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo=2000110800413511256.jpg
http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo=200011080038329864.jpg

It may have been repainted by 2001:
http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo=2001063020580616360.jpg

I am finishing up my SBD GP38-2 project. I still need to attach the hood bell and blnk out the cab headlight. With the help of the CRHS I was able to locate several proto photos of SW1500s. The article should be on its way in a few days.

I finished up my Quincy Bay Terminal Co. SW9:

Dan is it just the lighting? That orange does not look pink enough for QBT 20

Here she is when we had her at NEGS

[dclyde]

My training was in the TH-55 with a transition into the UH-1H.  TH-67 huh...looks like an OH-58A to me.

[delamaize]

My training was in the TH-55 with a transition into the UH-1H.  TH-67 huh...looks like an OH-58A to me.

TH-67 is a Bell Jetranger II. OH-58's are all Souped up Jet rangers. so in a round about way Yeah it is a OH-58, just with AC and more comfort feathures. ;D

[inkaneer]

Yep, I remember Ft. Rucker all too well.  Flight School, Cobra Course, Chinook Course, a couple trips to the Cobra simulator and a short stay with the Test Board.  On and off visits over a 22 year period.  Nice quite place but extremely boreing.  Dry counties (except for the Officers Club) and, back in the day, no malls...not even in Dothan.

The most excitement I had was rolling in hot on Enterprise High School with 17 pair of rockets.  Of course that was in the Cobra simulator.

Dave

I spent some time at Ft. Rucker while in the reserves after active duty.  I remember the Dothan airport as being surrounded by a cornfield with aterminal building about the size of a large ranch home.  I remember the officer's club having as a prize one year for its weekly blackout Bingo game a fully equipped Cessna.  The following year the prize was a pickup truck with a matchng paint scheme on a trailer and sport fishing boat.  Learned to play Bingo at Ft Rucker.