[Leica] IMG: Recalling Life Fifteen Years Ago

[Douglas Barry]

Nice shot, Jim. There was a clue in the photo, so you didn't have to 
tell us which one was yourself :-)

The Irish (Gaelic) for Jim is Seamus, and you are a LUG and Beyond 
Famous Seamus.

Douglas


On 24/06/2021 18:18, Jim Nichols wrote:
> A local fly-in in 2006 attracted a lot of people to the airport, 
> including a number of retirees who enjoyed an excuse to get outside.  
> Four AEDC retirees were greeting each other when a younger 
> acquaintance asked to take our picture. He sent me an 8x10 which has 
> been on a shelf in my office for the past fifteen years. Now 91 and 
> limited in my activities, I find the photo sets me to thinking of the 
> past.
>
> Pictured are two Jims and two Cliffs.  I am easy to recognize by the 
> Leica IIIf and an SLR around my neck.  The Cliff next to me was a very 
> young B-24 belly turret gunner in WWII, and later joined me to 
> supervise operations of the world's largest supersonic wind tunnel. 
> The next Jim was an instrumentation supervisor, and the next Cliff was 
> a computer technician.  All of us worked long night shifts in the 
> past, because that was when the electrical power was cheapest, and we 
> used large quantities of it.
>
> Sorry, the feet are cut off, but that is the way the photo was shot.
>
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20210624-P6240092.JPG.html
>
> I don't recall seeing any of these guys since that day in 2006, but 
> the photo is a cross-section of the past, for me. And, in Tennessee, 
> we do have some colorful chacters.
>