Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/07/27

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Subject: [Leica] RicC PAW 25
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 12:19:32 -0500
References: <901C247B-6926-4DF4-B292-30A61E06C0C9@gmail.com> <3a05b5b9-f2d3-ff44-c316-ebefa409d369@lighttube.net> <5C6F6EAD-757B-41EF-9780-A41C948F51B1@cartersxrd.net>

The Osprey is a miserable thing to taxi at a busy airport.? One clipped 
a rotor on a hangar at Nashville (BNA) a few years ago. I'm sure they 
prefer smaller fields.

Fort Campbell sends its large helicopters down here for practice sessions.

On 7/27/20 12:11 PM, RicCarter via LUG wrote:
> our local airport os one of their training airports-toucn and go, vertical 
> wing to horizontal wing, loop, horizontal wing to vertical wing, repeat
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> we have a marine airbase an hour or so from here (harriers)?apparetnly 
> this VTOL conversion thing never gets routine
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> ric
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>> On Jul 27, 2020, at 1:04 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Very nice collection this week, Ric.  Those are the best airborne photos 
>> of the Osprey that I've seen.  It is hard for me the believe that, as a 
>> USAF Sec. Lt., I was the project engineer on the wind tunnel test of the 
>> original proposed configuration that Bell submitted, in the Wright Field 
>> 20-Ft Wind Tunnel in 1952.  It took a lot of years to get it sold to the 
>> Defense Dept.
>>
>> On 7/27/20 11:14 AM, CartersXRd via LUG wrote:
>>> <https://2020.cartersxrd.net/CX2020/2020.07.23.html>
>>>
>>> The Daily Ric
>>> Thursday, July 23, 2020
>>> My Pictures-A-Week 25 album is posted at the link.
>>>
>>> Ric Carter
>>> www.2020.CartersXRd.net
>>> http://www.facebook.com/ric.carter
>>>
>>> -the world?s mosst careless typist-
>>>
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>> -- 
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
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Jim Nichols
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