[Leica] IMG: Recalling Life Fifteen Years Ago

[Don Dory]

Memories are good things to have.   Interesting work is possibly even
better to remember.

We have a local branch of the commerative Air force near here with a fly in
in March.   Should be fun.

On Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 12:18 PM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> 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.
>
> --
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
>
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