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PostPosted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 10:49 pm 
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Cool pictures. When did the Army transistion from Ft. Walters to Ft. Rucker, entirely?

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what's on the stick that looks like a balsa wood rubber band plane?? & what the heck is that scion looking aircraft tower??

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tom d. friedman wrote:
what's on the stick that looks like a balsa wood rubber band plane?? & what the heck is that scion looking aircraft tower??

Drone..don't remember which one..google=your friend. Not a tower, looks like an engine test stand.

Nice pics. The McDonnell XV-1 convertiplane compound helicopter is pretty neat, I've got some 8x10's of it
in my stash somewhere.

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EDowning wrote:
Cool pictures. When did the Army transistion from Ft. Walters to Ft. Rucker, entirely?


All Army flight training has at Fort Rucker since 1973.


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