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Subject: [Leica] IMG: A Couple of Airport Images
From: jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 20:50:54 -0400
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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
>>>
>>>
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