![]() With Detroit Transmission Division Hydra-Matic transmission, a Ford GAA Midway back in the center section is this engine display that includes aĬutaway of a Willys Hurricane engine, a WWII Cadillac V-8 tank engine Upon entering this is what one sees looking south down the west wall and Theīuilding on left is the display hall and the one on the right is the One would not know there was a first class museum here. Sign over the big double doors and a sign on the porch with the hours, Previous rural setting on the west side of Indianapolis in 2004 that wasīecoming over run with housing developments. The late Fred Ropkey moved the museum to this rural setting from a This part of Indiana is a mixture of farm fields and wooded areas. Behind the Ropkey residence in theīackground is the museum building, which can not be seen from the road. This sign is the only indication that there I'm not sure to this day they allĬrushing cars with tanks and dropping them from helicopters. About this time most of the crowd realized they About airshowĬenter the Chinook "accidently" dropped the car from several hundredįeet of altitude. One comes with a car dangling below it on a cable. Normal tow truck, but in this case a Chinook helicopter, because here Warning and pretty soon the crowd realizes that it will not be a a Then we started announcing that that if the owner didn't move Wrongly parked car was going to keep them from seeing the Thunderbirdsįly. ![]() Surprised that many of the crowd were getting really upset because this We kept up the announcements and were rather Our story was that the due to its location the US Thunderbirds would notīe able to fly. Early in the day we startedĪnnouncing that a certain car in the parking lot needed to be moved. The late Dick Pierce as part of a narrating team at the Rickenbacker Air In the late 1980's or early 1990's I was working with Dennis Griffey and Story! Above I mentioned a car being dropped from a helicopter. Interesting how we both ended up on the same road number and both the SR 32 which is the road I took for the visit. North of State Road 32 and the museum itself is about one mile north of Also I live on road 150 Northįour counties to the east in Madison county. Not used in all counties in Indiana, in those where it is it makes Us it is 5.649 miles east of the courthouse. It numerical address is 5649 East which then tells Means the location in 1.5 miles north of the courthouse inĬrawfordsville. For those of us in Indiana we understand this Interesting to me is that the Museum in located on Montgomery county Seen a car dropped from a helicopter at an airshow, but that is another This is the only time this was ever done at an airshow. We had the M4 run over them at airshow center. Of our shows in the mid-1980s we acquired three cars from the junk yard. Should contact Fred and crush some cars at our event. This gave me the idea that we at the Indiana Wing of the CAF Airshow In the movie tank the M4ĭriven by James Garner crushes some cars as he takes on the bad guys. M4 Sherman tank provided by Fred Ropkey shared the leading role with The late Fred Ropkey loaned some of his vehicles for use in the 1980 Was founded in 1982 and has been the lead military museum in the State Museum is now permanently closed as of July 31, 2017.Ī historical document as to what a fine armor museum we had for so many Museums - Aviation, Military, Automotive and Fire Rolls-Royce Heritage Center, Allison Branch Ropkey Armor Museum Wayne County Military History Center/Automotive and Carriage Museum National Military Museum Military Honor Park and Museum Museum of the Soldier National Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum Ernie Pyle WWII Museum Five Points Fire Museum Fort WayneĪrmy Airfield Museum Virgil "Gus" Grissom Memorial Hoosier Air Museum Indiana Military
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