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Subject: [Leica] IMG: A Couple of Airport Images
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 10:00:22 -0500
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Thanks for the kind words, Barney.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 5/17/2019 9:30 AM, Bernard Quinn via LUG wrote:
> Wow! Agreed!
>
> Barney
>
> Make America Kind Again!
>
> Barney Quinn, WK3Z
> 301-775-1386
>
>
>
>> On May 16, 2019, at 4:06 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the kind words, Tina.  At the time that airplane began airline 
>> service, in 1937, I was already clipping airplane pictures from my 
>> grandmother's Life Magazine.  Now, I tried to create the same type of 
>> photos I recall from those early days.  Glad you liked it.
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
>>> On 5/16/2019 2:51 PM, Tina Manley via LUG wrote:
>>> That's beautiful!  I don't usually pay much attention to the airplane and
>>> car photos but that one is a work of art.
>>>
>>> Tina
>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 3:40 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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