Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/05/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim: Good Job on the Environmental Portrait... would of fooled me. JimH On 5/13/19 3:51 PM, Jim Nichols wrote: > Thanks, Don.? While a young USAF Lieut., I made a couple of trips in a > C-47, but never in the airline version.? There's quite a difference in > the comfort of the seats. > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > > On 5/13/2019 2:44 PM, Don Dory via LUG wrote: >> 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 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information