Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/07/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]One of my favorite airplanes to shoot pictures from. I always took a large phillips screwdriver with me when I went out to fly in a 170 (or a 172) so I could take the screw out of the window brace, then the side window would flap up against the wing so I had a pretty clear view. Love a shot that brings back good memories. Thanks. On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote: > While I was watching the glider and skydiving activity at the airport > today, this sight from the 1950s taxiied over to the gas pumps. This is a > Cessna 170B from 1954, although the registration shows the original > Continental 145hp engine has been replaced with a Lycoming O-360 of 180hp. > The pilot, who was certainly older than the airplane, was preflighting the > aircraft for a Sunday flight. > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/From+the+50s.JPG.html > > X-E1 with 27mm Pancake > > Comments and critiques welcomed > > -- > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana 1714 Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase USA