Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/25

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Unknown airplane
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:33:49 +1000
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The wonders of Google!

2009/10/26 Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwm.edu>

> On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Can any airplane maven on the LUG tell me what this is? I came across it
> on
> >the tarmac of the USAF museum in Dayton, OH and I neglected to note the
> >manufacturer. The only tri-motor airplane that I know by sight is the old
> >Ford trimotor.
> >http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Unknown+airplane.jpg.html
> >Larry Z
> ===========================================================
> I think it might be a Fairchild Trimotor from the 1950's.  Somewhere in my
> library
> of books and magazines there is a picture of this taking off with rocket
> assist, but I can't
> remember which publication it's in.
>
> BTW, last week I went to the university library semi-annual used book sale
> and among other
> things picked up (for 25 cents) an original Republic Avaiation sales
> brochure for the SeaBee (like the one
> in your picture a couple of weeks ago).
>
>
> Alan
>
> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
> University Information Technology Services
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
> amr3 at uwm.edu
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/
>
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