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Subject: [Leica] IMG: The Ageless DC-3
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 21:57:01 -0500
References: <3782DD2D9465459691789DE9B93467B8@jimnichols> <015f01cde48d$53efab70$fbcf0250$@NelonAssociates.com> <50DF781F.2070107@sbcglobal.net> <026401cde623$8f07cf70$ad176e50$@NelonAssociates.com> <50DF9629.9090905@sbcglobal.net>

Indeed, I have no good memories of Tree Top Airlines.  I remember one
flight in Love Field literally at tree top just missing some of Dallas'
finest new buildings.  But at least that flight was on time.


On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Bill Larsen <von-ohlen at 
sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> Thanks for the back story.  I really didn't catch the time period. It was
> a different time in a lot of ways.  I loved flying over the Belgium at
> about as 2,000 feet on he way to Gatwick.  I was so lucky to be stationed
> at an air force base where I figured out how to hop rides to interesting
> places.  (Of course one had no  idea about how you were going to get back).
>  I think the whole point of my post is that there are a lot of reasons we
> make photographs.  And one of them is very personal in that  even photos
> you wouldn't publish job our memories to something that happened in the
> past.
>
> I sometimes worry about some of the people that are using magnifying
> glasses to examine  photo prints.
>
> Regards, Bill
>
> Oh and can you really do what your website says at those prices?  ;)
>
>
> On 12/29/2012 4:21 PM, James R. Nelon wrote:
>
>> Bill,
>>
>> There is a back story on the Canaima trip: I was leaning well through the
>> left seat pilot while he was banking the plane so everyone could get a
>> better view as he made several circles of the falls. I was essentially in
>> his lap pushing my R3 out the open left-side window to try to get a clear
>> shot of the falls. On the way back, the third pilot on the flight went up
>> and took over the controls while the captain came back behind the cockpit,
>> sat on a stack of beer cases and had a few brews during the 2-something
>> hour
>> boring return flight. I was watching the left seat as he was flying the
>> plane, and after a while, his head never moved again. He had fallen
>> asleep.
>> When we got close to Barcelona, the captain finished his beer,  returned
>> to
>> the left seat, tapped the sleeping pilot, took his place and landed the
>> plane. Quite an interesting trip. No one died.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> James R. Nelon
>> Partner
>> Memories Forever Studios
>> Office: +1-508-319-1679
>> Cell: +1-508-308-6525
>> Email: JNelon at Memories-Forever-**Studios.com
>> Website: 
>> http://Memories-Forever-**Studios.com<http://Memories-Forever-Studios.com>
>>
>>
>>
>
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-- 
Don
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In reply to: Message from jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] IMG: The Ageless DC-3)
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Message from von-ohlen at sbcglobal.net (Bill Larsen) ([Leica] IMG: The Ageless DC-3)
Message from JNelon at NelonAssociates.com (James R. Nelon) ([Leica] IMG: The Ageless DC-3)
Message from von-ohlen at sbcglobal.net (Bill Larsen) ([Leica] IMG: The Ageless DC-3)