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Subject: [Leica] IMG: From the 1930s
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:28:06 -0600
References: <4F264339.8050102@threshinc.com> <672905B6-0159-456B-8320-94D56A8640A7@me.com>

Thanks for the link, Gerry.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gerry Walden" <gwpics at me.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 1:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: From the 1930s


> Jim
>
> I have a feeling that you will like this web site 
> http://www.classicflight.com/. I once spent couple of days flying in their 
> DC-6 from Southampton (UK) to Le Havre (France) whilst it was loaded with 
> cattle being exported. I am pleased to report that the cattle settled very 
> quickly into the flight.
>
> Gerry
>
> Gerry Walden LRPS
> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 (Office)
> +44 (0)797 287 7932 (Mobile)
> Web: www.gwpics.com
>
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>
>
>
> On 30 Jan 2012, at 07:14, Peter Klein wrote:
>
>> Jim: I'm really enjoying your historic airplanes, even though I don't 
>> know much about them.  The sepia really works on that one.  And you still 
>> look dashing in a bomber jacket.  (You should have had a screw-mount 
>> Leica around your neck and then you could have passed it off as an 
>> historic photo!)  :-)
>>
>> Question:  I once flew on a plane that looked very much like that DC-3. 
>> I was about 9 years old, and it was the spring of 1963. My parents and I 
>> flew nonstop from Boston to Washington, DC.  Would you hazard a guess as 
>> to what model airplane I flew on?
>>
>> --Peter
>>
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In reply to: Message from pklein at threshinc.com (Peter Klein) ([Leica] IMG: From the 1930s)
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