[Leica] IMG: In Keeping With the Battle of Britain on OM List

[Douglas Barry]

Thanks Jim, what an amazing yoke and priced to sell - an aircraft for the 
price of a good lens!!! Mind you looking at the struts to that wing, a 
strong belief in a merciful lord would be a necessary asset to FRED pilots 
:-)

I'm sure it works perfectly though!

Douglas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2015 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: In Keeping With the Battle of Britain on OM List


> Hi Douglas,
> Give my best wishes to your wife.  Thanks for your interest in the photo 
> of Eric.  He was 17 when the war ended, and, since the RAF had a pilot 
> surplus at that time, he was assigned to a bomb disposal unit.  He later 
> flew gliders, and was one of Britain's earliest designers of homebuilt 
> airplanes.
>
> Wing Commander Chris Barker, who is a member of the Olympus list, came up 
> with two links that you might find interesting.
>
> http://cluttonfred.info  <http://cluttonfred.info/>
>
> http://cluttonfred.info/eric  <http://cluttonfred.info/eric>
>
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
> On 9/20/2015 6:20 AM, Douglas Barry wrote:
>> Jim, trying to play catch up here as my wife wasn't too well. That's an 
>> interesting shot, Unusual to find an RAF man marooned in the US. What did 
>> he fly in the RAF?
>>
>> Douglas
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Nichols" 
>> <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
>> To: "LUG at Leica-Users.org" <lug at leica-users.org>; "Olympus Camera 
>> Discussion" <olympus at thomasclausen.net>
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 8:41 PM
>> Subject: [Leica] IMG: In Keeping With the Battle of Britain on OM List
>>
>>
>>> There has been some excellent coverage of the Battle of Britain 
>>> Remembrance Celebration today on the Olympus List.  I just happened to 
>>> run in to an RAF veteran, a couple of years older than myself, at the 
>>> airport today.  While he can still fly, he has trouble hauling himself 
>>> into and out of his Luscombe.
>>>
>>> His constant companion is his current parakeet, a youngster named Bill.
>>>
>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Eric+and+Bill.tif.html
>>>
>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Bill+and+Eric.tif.html
>>>
>>> I thought I would add these images to the remembrance of the RAF.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>
>>>
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