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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Airport Visit
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 13:55:04 -0500
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I feel the same, Nathan.? Would you believe that the airplane is older 
than you, making its first flight in the mid-1950s?

On 9/15/20 1:47 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> I like the red plane, even though I despise its message.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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>> On 11 Sep 2020, at 22:59, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
>>
>> I took a two-lens kit to the airport on a very hot day today. The camera 
>> was a micro-4/3 Oly E-M1 and the lenses were the 50/2.0 Macro and the 
>> 50-200 SWD, along with my monopod.
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>> The first two images were made with the 50/2.0.  First is a Canadian 
>> manufactured T-33 airshow performer painted to appeal to Republicans.
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>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20200911-P9113595.JPG.html
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>> Second is today's jumper-hauler, for smaller crowds, a Pacific Aerospace 
>> Ltd. 750XL from New Zealand.  It was also shot with the 50/2.0.
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>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20200911-P9113628.JPG.html
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>> I then switched to the 50-200 with monopod and caught a tandem pair as 
>> they descended.
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>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20200911-P9113609-2.JPG.html
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>> And finally, the retrieval truck, as it started back to the hangar to 
>> repack the parachutes.
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>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20200911-P9113617.JPG.html
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>> -- 
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
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Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA



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