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Subject: [Leica] IMG: From the 1930s
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:23:56 -0600
References: <4F264339.8050102@threshinc.com><BB8796B84EBC4D5BBB141592129F9C65@jimnichols><CAE3QcF5r-kmXE13_vF3C96-XbM5zC8Wystq5u7mVrXjLQO6qYg@mail.gmail.com><1BD1F847E6F04962AF99C6EF39C0FCFB@jimnichols> <CAE3QcF5VuXorWut5GJadLmWszp4ppO1eMiHV38iWsedfT6+2AQ@mail.gmail.com>

Sounds familiar.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoff Hopkinson" <hopsternew at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: From the 1930s


> Fold-up canvas benchs along each side
>
> Mit freundlichen Gruessen
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>
> NO ARCHIVE
>
>
>
> On 31 January 2012 06:40, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi Geoff,
>>
>> I only made a couple of flights in a C-47, in 1952.  Ours had bench seats
>> along the sides, not really made for comfort.  If you traveled that much 
>> in
>> them, did yours have passenger seats?
>>
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoff Hopkinson" 
>> <hopsternew at gmail.com
>> >
>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 2:29 PM
>>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: From the 1930s
>>
>>
>>  And in the 1980's, hoppy was still travelling thousands of kms a year as 
>> a
>>> passsenger in one of several remaining military Dakotas in Australia!
>>> http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/**gallery/Dakota/WB_2A65_ARDU<http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/Dakota/WB_2A65_ARDU>
>>> http://www.airforce.gov.au/**raafmuseum/exhibitions/b_**
>>> scenes/air_store/dakota.htm<http://www.airforce.gov.au/raafmuseum/exhibitions/b_scenes/air_store/dakota.htm>
>>>
>>> Mit freundlichen Gruessen
>>> Geoff
>>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 31 January 2012 02:26, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Peter,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the kind words.
>>>>
>>>> In 1963, almost all airlines that were flying piston engined aircraft 
>>>> in
>>>> the US were using either Martin 404s or Convair 240/340 series 
>>>> airplanes,
>>>> with tricycle landing gear.  A few of the DC-3s survived on the short
>>>> haul
>>>> routes.
>>>>
>>>> Jim Nichols
>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Klein" <pklein at 
>>>> threshinc.com>
>>>> To: "lug" <lug at leica-users.org>
>>>> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 1:14 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: From the 1930s
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  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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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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Message from jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] IMG: From the 1930s)
Message from hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] IMG: From the 1930s)