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Subject: [Leica] IMG: A Couple of Airport Images
From: bjq1 at mac.com (Bernard Quinn)
Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 10:30:12 -0400
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Wow! Agreed!

Barney

Make America Kind Again!

Barney Quinn, WK3Z
301-775-1386



> On May 16, 2019, at 4:06 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> 
> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the kind words, Tina.  At the time that airplane began airline 
> service, in 1937, I was already clipping airplane pictures from my 
> grandmother's Life Magazine.  Now, I tried to create the same type of 
> photos I recall from those early days.  Glad you liked it.
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> 
>> On 5/16/2019 2:51 PM, Tina Manley via LUG wrote:
>> That's beautiful!  I don't usually pay much attention to the airplane and
>> car photos but that one is a work of art.
>> 
>> Tina
>> 
>>> On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 3:40 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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