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Subject: [Leica] IMG: A Couple of Airport Images
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 21:59:22 -0500
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Thanks, Jim.? It's a beauty, from almost any angle.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 5/13/2019 7:50 PM, Jim Hemenway wrote:
> Jim:
>
> Good Job on the Environmental Portrait... would of fooled me.
>
> JimH
>
>
>
> On 5/13/19 3:51 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>> 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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