[Leica] IMG: The American Airlines Flagship Detroit

[Jim Nichols]

Thanks for looking and commenting, Jay.  I've been around this airport 
for sixty years, and can pretty much go where I want, unless it is to 
some sort of paid event.  I trade photos to the airport manager for 
access, and he invited me out while they parked the old bird.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 6/13/2016 6:21 PM, Jay Burleson wrote:
> Waht a treasure, good looking plane.
> We just had one of the few flying B-17 bombers, "Aluminum Overcast" at 
> our Museum of Flight last weekend. Unfortnately, while I was there it 
> was busy taking passengers on flights (for $475.00 a person) and where 
> it staged and fueled was at the other end of the field from the museum 
> so I couldn't get close to it.
> But boy, you could feel the engines as it rumbled down the runway on 
> takeoff!
>
> Jay
>
> On 6/13/2016 2:06 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>> I looked at the scheduled flights for today and realized one of the
>> prime restored DC-3s in the country was coming in.  In keeping with its
>> age, I put a Leica Summaron 35/3.5 on the Fuji X-E1, a lens dating from
>> 1956, purchased from a former LUG contributor. Here are three images:
>>
>> Parking the DC-3
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Parking+the+DC-3.tif.html
>>
>> A front, quarter view
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Front+Quarter+View+DC-3.tif.html 
>>
>>
>>
>> And a full side view of the American Airlines Flagship Detroit
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/American+Airlines+Flagship+Detroit.tif.html 
>>
>>
>>
>> And, as an afterthought, life is not always rosy, even when you have
>> money.  The owner of this very expensive touring bus turned too closely
>> around a post this morning when departing from Bonnaroo.  The aluminum
>> wheel must be replaced before it can make the seven hour drive home.
>> Body work will follow. :-(
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Bonnaroo+Boo+Boo.tif.html
>>
>> Comments and critiques are welcomed and appreciated.
>>
>
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