Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/05/07

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: Leica Laurels....was `Summicron 35 hood'
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@gp.magick.net>
Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 07:42:45 -0700

At 06:53 AM 5/7/96 -0700, you wrote:

>     That's basically the story I've heard as well, except that I thought
>everyone ejected successfully from both planes. (A tragedy if someone had to
>die for a photo op.) Also recall the slides disappeared and haven't been
>seen since, despite a reward offered by Mark Meyer, the photographer who was
>shooting for Time.
>
>----------------------
>Charles E. Albertson
>Seattle, Wash.
>chucko@mail.eskimo.com

That might be the case, but I have a Leica publication with a picture of the
planes before they collided. So somewhere along the line they had the
pictures toto publish.

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Eric Welch
Grants Pass Daily Courier