Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Larry, You might be interested in perusing this site. http://www.seabee.info/seabee_index.htm Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: <lrzeitlin at aol.com> To: <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 10:49 PM Subject: [Leica] IMG: Abandoned airplane > Now that airplanes have appeared in the LUG it might be a good time to > disgorge my file of aircraft pictures. During my years of working in > the military/industrial complex I spent most of my time on futuristic > aircraft that thankfully were never used in anger. In fact most were > cancelled before they became operational. These included the Avro CF > 105, the XB 70 Valkyrie bomber and it's smaller sibling, the XF 108 > Rapier fighter, and the Dynasoar space plane, the distant ancestor of > the Space Shuttle. Look these up in Wikipedia to get an idea of what > they were. > > I'm not a pilot. My total hands on experience with flying is soloing in > a Piper Cub and about 10 hours of helicopter training in the Army. But > at the time I was a systems engineer and was considered adept at > merging the concerns of airframe designers, electronics engineers and > flight crew. Still, I was fascinated with aircraft, especially old > planes, and took pictures whenever I had the chance. Which was not too > often during my working days because of security restrictions. So most > of my pics were made adventitiously. > > Here is the first of the series. An abandoned amphibian that I stumbled > upon when biking near my home. It is on the shore in an old seaplane > landing area in the small Hudson River town of Verplanck. I was told > that some aviation enthusiasts intend to fix it up and fly it again. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Seaplane+1.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Seaplane+2.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Seaplane+3.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Seaplane+4.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Seaplane+5.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Seaplane+6.jpg.html > > Larry Z > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >