[Leica] IMG: Airport Visit

Jim Nichols jhnichols at lighttube.net
Fri Sep 11 19:22:48 PDT 2020


Thanks for looking, Ric.  Being off the busy airways, it is an ideal 
skydiving location.  And, it gets a lot of fuel stops by North/South and 
East/West cross-country flights.  There are two charter jets based here, 
and a lot of freight flights serving the auto industry in the area.

On 9/11/20 9:10 PM, RicCarter via LUG wrote:
> a lot happens there for a little airport
>
> ric
>
>
>> On Sep 11, 2020, at 4:59 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
>>
>> I took a two-lens kit to the airport on a very hot day today. The camera was a micro-4/3 Oly E-M1 and the lenses were the 50/2.0 Macro and the 50-200 SWD, along with my monopod.
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>> The first two images were made with the 50/2.0.  First is a Canadian manufactured T-33 airshow performer painted to appeal to Republicans.
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>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20200911-P9113595.JPG.html
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>> Second is today's jumper-hauler, for smaller crowds, a Pacific Aerospace Ltd. 750XL from New Zealand.  It was also shot with the 50/2.0.
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>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20200911-P9113628.JPG.html
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>> I then switched to the 50-200 with monopod and caught a tandem pair as they descended.
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>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20200911-P9113609-2.JPG.html
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>> And finally, the retrieval truck, as it started back to the hangar to repack the parachutes.
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>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20200911-P9113617.JPG.html
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>> -- 
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
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