Military Vehicles Mailing List Mar 2006: Re: Ft Wolters ???

Re: Ft Wolters ???

From: International Movie Services (ims@telus.net)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2006 - 20:30:41 PST

Now an industrial park but with many of the original buildings housing small
companies with MV related activities. There is actually an outfit there
which overhauls Hillers for fun and profit, and will teach you to fly one!
There was also an MV truck and parts supplier there as I went there during
the MVPA Dallas Convention and shipped back a pallet load of 5 ton bits.
Cheers!
Ian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas M McHugh" <tmmchugh@msn.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 8:08 PM
Subject: [MV] Ft Wolters ???

> Ft Wolters ???
>
> I was stationed at Wolters AFB in Mineral Wells Texas from Jan 1952 until
> April 1954 with SCARWAF (Special Category Army Attached With Air
> Force)units.
>
> I had heard it was changed to Ft Wolters, but cannot find out anything
> about the base. Is it still in existence ???
>
> Tom McHugh, NJ
> 1952 M38A1
> M-416 Trailer
> MVPA, MTA, Red Ball Transport
> KWVA NJ State Commander Korean War Veterans association
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chance Wolf" <bigbadwolf@telus.net>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 10:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [MV] MV Magazine Apr Issue
>
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "International Movie Services" <ims@telus.net>
>> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 6:56 PM
>> Subject: Re: [MV] MV Magazine Apr Issue
>>
>>
>>> We think the Hiller will fly!!
>>
>> I'd settle for "get the blades to rotate without the use of C4" at the
>> moment. :)
>>
>> Actually, it's a thing of beauty. It's sitting in the bottom of this
>> forested gully with muck and slime and the vulture-picked bones of many a
>> 1960's travel-trailer littering the surrounding area, but there it sits -
>> complete - all cocooned in black-plastic garbage bags with its US ARMY
>> markings on the tail-boom showing through an indifferently-applied layer
>> of
>> WalMart blue paint. All the avionics are still present - as are the nav
>> lights and stuff -- everything right down to the mount and cables for the
>> ARC-5. It's a two-stick one we figure came up from Ft. Wolters primary
>> helo
>> school before they swapped over to the TH-55 Osage sometime in, I think,
>> 1969 - and how it came to be perched on its trailer all nicely preserved
>> in
>> the middle of a stand of 20 yr old trees at the bottom of a gully is
>> anyone's guess. Probably make a decent History Channel short, or, if the
>> rain doesn't stop, a fairly riveting Horror movie. Now we just need our
>> long-sought UH-1H non-flyer to keep it company, but nobody seems to have
>> anything but bent, naked, perspex-less aluminum which may've once
>> attended
>> the masquerade ball *dressed* as a Huey.
>>
>> (We wanted to fly the Hiller out but I can't get my M1009 and slave-cable
>> close enough for a jump-start. After all, Microsoft Flight Simulator
>> says
>> I'm ready to solo, and who am I to argue with the mighty Bill Gates?)
>>
>>
>>
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