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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Stopped by the Airport
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:51:37 -0500
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Possibly at the Marble Falls airport where the commemorative air force has
their museum and workshop.  Marble Falls is just SW of Austin.

On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 3:20 PM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> 
wrote:

> About a week ago, a C-47 in D-Day paint stopped here for fuel.  I
> followed it online through Mississippi and Arkansas until it landed in
> the Austin area about sundown.  It takes a lot of money and work, but
> they just keep on going.
>
> On 9/13/21 3:03 PM, Don Dory via LUG wrote:
> > Lovely to see the old planes still being worked on.  Our local
> > Commemorative Air Force finished it's restoration of a P39 and sent it
> back
> > to it's home airport, sigh.  I would have liked to see it fly at their
> > annual air show.
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 12:47 PM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> After keeping a medical appointment, I stopped by the airport for a few
> >> minutes.  I found a former U.S. Navy T-28 trainer sitting out front
> >> prior to departure.  In the far background, the DC-3 "Mr. Douglas"
> >> awaits the installation of its engines and avionics, the overhaul having
> >> been interrupted, like everything else, by Covid.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20210913-DSCF7434-2-Enhanced.jpg.html
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jim Nichols
> >> Tullahoma, TN USA
> >>
> >>
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> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
>
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-- 
Don
don.dory at gmail.com


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