[Leica] IMG: Swift from the 1940s

[Jim Nichols]

Thanks, Adam.  They are attractive little airplanes.  This one belongs 
to a husband and wife team of professional pilots.  Though they 
maintained the external appearance of the original, beneath that facade 
there are many modifications, including 180 hp instead of the original 
125 hp.  And the three that visited our airport that day had all been 
converted to military-like sticks, rather than the original control wheels.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 8/15/2015 3:21 PM, Adam Bridge wrote:
> VERY nice, Jim.
>
> And wonderfully evocative: I spent many a summer afternoon hand polishing a Swift at a grass-strip airport about a mile from my home. In exchange for rides of course! I knew just about every inch of that aircraft. It had day-glow orange paint at the tips of the wings and vertical stabilizer. A beautiful plane.
>
> Adam
>
>> On 2015 Aug 13, at 12:53 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
>>
>> Conversion in Silver Efex Pro 2.
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Swift+from+the+1940s.jpg.html
>>
>> iPhone photo
>>
>> Comments and critiques welcomed.
>>
>> -- 
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
>>
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