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Subject: [Leica] IMG: A Couple of Airport Images
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 14:51:41 -0500
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Thanks, Don.? While a young USAF Lieut., I made a couple of trips in a 
C-47, but never in the airline version.? There's quite a difference in 
the comfort of the seats.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 5/13/2019 2:44 PM, Don Dory via LUG wrote:
> The B&W of the DC3 does it for me.   My first airline trip was in a Delta
> DC-3
>
> On Mon, May 13, 2019, 2:40 PM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> 
> wrote:
>
>> While making a shopping run today, I stopped by the airport.  I wanted
>> another look at the impressive early DC-3 parked there.  As I suspected,
>> this 1937 model is equipped with Wright Whirlwind engines.  Later models
>> used Pratt & Whitney Twin-Wasp engines.  Seeing the cloud cover, I
>> thought this was a good chance to get an environmental portrait of the
>> airplane as it would have been depicted in 1937 when it entered airline
>> service.
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20190513-DSCF7319.JPG.html
>>
>> I always enjoy the conversations with the folks in attendance at the
>> airport counter.  Here is one of the friendliest.
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20190513-DSCF7323.JPG.html
>>
>> --
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
>>
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