Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/06/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Memories are good things to have. Interesting work is possibly even better to remember. We have a local branch of the commerative Air force near here with a fly in in March. Should be fun. On Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 12:18 PM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote: > A local fly-in in 2006 attracted a lot of people to the airport, > including a number of retirees who enjoyed an excuse to get outside. > Four AEDC retirees were greeting each other when a younger acquaintance > asked to take our picture. He sent me an 8x10 which has been on a shelf > in my office for the past fifteen years. Now 91 and limited in my > activities, I find the photo sets me to thinking of the past. > > Pictured are two Jims and two Cliffs. I am easy to recognize by the > Leica IIIf and an SLR around my neck. The Cliff next to me was a very > young B-24 belly turret gunner in WWII, and later joined me to supervise > operations of the world's largest supersonic wind tunnel. The next Jim > was an instrumentation supervisor, and the next Cliff was a computer > technician. All of us worked long night shifts in the past, because > that was when the electrical power was cheapest, and we used large > quantities of it. > > Sorry, the feet are cut off, but that is the way the photo was shot. > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20210624-P6240092.JPG.html > > I don't recall seeing any of these guys since that day in 2006, but the > photo is a cross-section of the past, for me. And, in Tennessee, we do > have some colorful chacters. > > -- > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information