[Leica] IMG: Lindbergh who?

[Jim Nichols]

I don't think Alcock and Brown ever got the recognition they deserved.  
Thanks for remembering them.

On 8/5/21 2:58 PM, Douglas Barry wrote:
> Just back from a week down in Connemara in the west of Ireland.
>
> Here's a shot I took down there. It's a sort of homage to Herbert 
> List's 1937 photograph.
>
> A honeysuckle slip in a bottle beside the outdoor eating area of 
> Baidín restaurant in Clifden, Co. Galway overlooking the Atlantic. The 
> Alcock & Brown 1919 landing site for the very first non-stop 
> transatlantic flight is about 4km from this bottle. They flew 
> eastwards across the ocean in a Vickers Vimy and saw what they thought 
> was a verdant green landing strip beside the Marconi radio station. 
> Unfortunately, it was a bog.  Luckily they weren't hurt.
>
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Honeysuckle+in+bottle.jpg.html 
>
>
> Can be seen larger. Sony A7 and 55/1.8 Sonnar.
>
> Douglas
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Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA