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Subject: [Leica] IMG: A Couple of Airport Images
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 14:44:48 -0500
References: <65761bf2-980d-068e-4fa3-ab8cbd1e2e1a@lighttube.net>

The B&W of the DC3 does it for me.   My first airline trip was in a Delta
DC-3

On Mon, May 13, 2019, 2:40 PM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:

> While making a shopping run today, I stopped by the airport.  I wanted
> another look at the impressive early DC-3 parked there.  As I suspected,
> this 1937 model is equipped with Wright Whirlwind engines.  Later models
> used Pratt & Whitney Twin-Wasp engines.  Seeing the cloud cover, I
> thought this was a good chance to get an environmental portrait of the
> airplane as it would have been depicted in 1937 when it entered airline
> service.
>
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20190513-DSCF7319.JPG.html
>
> I always enjoy the conversations with the folks in attendance at the
> airport counter.  Here is one of the friendliest.
>
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20190513-DSCF7323.JPG.html
>
> --
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
>
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