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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Optimized Super Cub
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 09:38:35 -0500
References: <55BD2DBB.1090306@lighttube.net> <529B2A5D-06EA-448C-AC7E-267DE2F9E493@icloud.com>

Thanks, George.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 8/4/2015 8:59 AM, George Lottermoser wrote:
> On Aug 1, 2015, at 3:36 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>
>> A couple of guys parked this beautiful Piper PA-18 Super Cub and left the 
>> airport, so I took a look at the airplane.  I appears to have been 
>> rebuilt in Experimental Category to allow modifications. I noted a modern 
>> panel, doors on both sides, what appears to be a baggage compartment door 
>> on the left side, and a custom Mattituck TMX 360 version of the Lycoming 
>> 180 hp engine.  It also has drooped wing tips of modern design. 
>> Everything one needs to go for a $200 hamburger!
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/DSCF2062.tif.html
>>
>> Fuji X-E1 with 27mm
>>
>> Comments and critiques welcomed.
> Another lovely human scale plane;
> very nicely photographed.
>
> Like a sunflower
> it appears to be wishing
> it were closer to the sun.
>
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
>
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In reply to: Message from jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] IMG: Optimized Super Cub)
Message from george.imagist at icloud.com (George Lottermoser) ([Leica] IMG: Optimized Super Cub)