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Subject: [Leica] IMG: At the Airport
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 16:37:41 -0500
References: <51F03A7A.6090605@lighttube.net> <0A714352E92E4102931CEE301E70FCEE@Family>

Hi Douglas,

At least you had the presence of mind to take a long lens.  All I had 
was a 60mm.

Nice image, by the way.

Because of our funding freeze, the U.S. team is not doing air shows this 
year.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 7/24/2013 4:22 PM, Douglas Barry wrote:
>
>
> "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote
>>>>>
>
>> Because of the sequestered funding, the U.S. Army Golden Knight 
>> parachute team had to be conservative in training expenses.  New 
>> candidates are getting their required number of training jumps at our 
>> local airport. Here, one approaches his landing spot.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Golden+Knight+Training.jpg.html
>>>>>>
>
> Interesting coincidence Jim, I also took a shot of the Irish Defence 
> Forces parachute team - the Black Knights (no gold here in Ireland:-)) 
> landing near my back garden (well on the beach) here in Bray last Sunday.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/AirShow13_BlackKnight.jpg.html
>  
>
>
> As the team took a video of one of their drops from the army 
> helicopter, you can get a view of Bray and the Airshow which may put 
> some of my pictures into context. View it here.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9R-XVHP_hI
>
> Douglas
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