Last Sunday.
Flew 45 mins to Oberschleißheim near Munich with my former CFI and buddy Stefan.
Visited the museum at the Flugplatz Schleißheim, the oldest still operating airfield in Germany with some interesting history.
I was pleasantly surprised to find some interesting STOL (Fieseler Storch) and VTOL (Do 31, VJ101) aircraft in the small but very nice museum. It is part of the German Technical Museum in Munich.

Flight there and back directly over the (very green) city center of Munich.

Nice pictures. I was in the First Squadron of the Second Armored Cavalry Regiment {Nuremberg) in the early 70s. First Squadron was in Bayreuth. The French gave 2 ACR the Fleur de Lis unit patch in WWI before the Boy Scouts began using it.

Interesting retractable skis. I’ve never seen a set up like that...

contactflying wrote:Nice pictures. I was in the First Squadron of the Second Armored Cavalry Regiment {Nuremberg) in the early 70s. First Squadron was in Bayreuth. The French gave 2 ACR the Fleur de Lis unit patch in WWI before the Boy Scouts began using it.

Contact, very interesting! I read somewhere in the museum that the US Army (?) used the field to train helicopter pilots for Korea or Vietnam.

Dirt911 wrote:Interesting retractable skis. I’ve never seen a set up like that...

Looks like it's operated mechanically via a cam... probably simple, lightweight and reliable. Wondering why such a setup isn't used very much today.

Orientation in FRG was toward USSR. Many of our Allied helicopter pilots including German were trained at Ft. Wolters Texas and Ft. Rucker Alabama, but orientation here was Vietnam. I flew Cobras in the First Air Cavalry in Vietnam and did my ground cavalry tour in West Germany. I was the S2, intelligence officer, in the First Squadron. Our mission was to cooperate with Allies to blunt a major Russian attack until major Allied forces could be brought to bear. We practiced lots of retrograde operations, strategic withdrawal.

Do you fly Sikorsky helicopters?

There is no missing the VW truck! That would be cool to own.

Kurt

The Doka is really cool!

I knew you guys would like the VW T1...

contactflying wrote:Do you fly Sikorsky helicopters?

The German Army and Air Force had the Sikorsky H-34G (S-58) and the CH-53 Sea Stallion.
I am Austrian and our Army has a couple of UH-60L Black Hawks.

Very good. When the split came after WWII, our Army gave up the aviation branch to USAF. Commissioned officers, RLOs (Real Live Officers,) had to be combat branch and alternate tours air and ground. After Germany I resigned and became a Warrant officer in the National Guard, which I liked much better. Because I was an Armor officer, I got Cobra transition after flight school and flew in Apache Troop 1/9th Air Cavalry in Vietnam. Later I flew A, B, C, H, and M model Hueys in the Guard. As Warrant and instructor I only flew. Later the regular Army got their avaition branch back. The USAF has always had a burr up their butt about Army avaition.

While our CIC is a pain in the butt for our allies, he is just a symptom of our return to isolationism. The allies are becoming stronger, however, thank God. I am old and don't expect to be around for the next big war. When my son was in Iraq and Afghanistan, I told him to watch the British because they had been at this a long time. You guys flew hunter killer teams in Vietnam with Bell 13s and Cessna O-2s. I met two of your infantrymen on a parts and day off Huey going back to Phu Loi. They were in field uniform with rifles. When I asked where they were going one said, "We're on our holidays just going up county to see how the Yanks are getting on."