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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Optimized Super Cub
From: imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 22:20:37 +0100
References: <55BD2DBB.1090306@lighttube.net>

$200 hamburger? That's like a gold plated toilet seat, Jim.
Send me the hamburger receipe!

Nice plane, but I liked the smiling girl yesterday.

Douglas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
To: "LUG at Leica-Users.org" <lug at leica-users.org>; "Olympus Camera 
Discussion" 
<olympus at thomasclausen.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2015 9:36 PM
Subject: [Leica] IMG: Optimized Super Cub


>  A couple of guys parked this beautiful Piper PA-18 Super Cub and left the 
> airport, so I took a look at the airplane.  I appears to have been rebuilt 
> in Experimental Category to allow modifications. I noted a modern panel, 
> doors on both sides, what appears to be a baggage compartment door on the 
> left side, and a custom Mattituck TMX 360 version of the Lycoming 180 hp 
> engine.  It also has drooped wing tips of modern design.  Everything one 
> needs to go for a $200 hamburger!
>
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/DSCF2062.tif.html
>
> Fuji X-E1 with 27mm
>
> Comments and critiques welcomed.
>
> -- 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
>
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