Originally Posted by
sandiego89
Interesting possible link to Felker Field at Ft. Eustis. Usually a pretty sleepy field but always with some interesting relics from various 1960's and 1970's rotor projects dumped about the field and a few preserved on base, such as the high speed compound Huey's and others. It was neat to drive around and see some surprises.
Hmm, we used to bounce there. SH-2's back in the 80's, and IIRC we used to pick up their PAR for training flights. Just north of there on the James River was what we called the Ghost Fleet. Dozens of very old ships, most of them supply and support ships, parked at an achorage against the need to take them out of mothballs and use them to move material across the Atlantic. I think that was eventually disposed of a while back; made for an interesting set of targets radar training flights for our new aircrewmen.