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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Airport Visit
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 21:22:48 -0500
References: <7077850a-2762-22ba-edf8-c3ec215a3080@lighttube.net> <8F7D409F-5D0E-4D15-BA25-1449F42B1207@cartersxrd.net>

Thanks for looking, Ric.? Being off the busy airways, it is an ideal 
skydiving location.? And, it gets a lot of fuel stops by North/South and 
East/West cross-country flights.? There are two charter jets based here, 
and a lot of freight flights serving the auto industry in the area.

On 9/11/20 9:10 PM, RicCarter via LUG wrote:
> a lot happens there for a little airport
>
> ric
>
>
>> On Sep 11, 2020, at 4:59 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> I took a two-lens kit to the airport on a very hot day today. The camera 
>> was a micro-4/3 Oly E-M1 and the lenses were the 50/2.0 Macro and the 
>> 50-200 SWD, along with my monopod.
>>
>> The first two images were made with the 50/2.0.  First is a Canadian 
>> manufactured T-33 airshow performer painted to appeal to Republicans.
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20200911-P9113595.JPG.html
>>
>> Second is today's jumper-hauler, for smaller crowds, a Pacific Aerospace 
>> Ltd. 750XL from New Zealand.  It was also shot with the 50/2.0.
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20200911-P9113628.JPG.html
>>
>> I then switched to the 50-200 with monopod and caught a tandem pair as 
>> they descended.
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20200911-P9113609-2.JPG.html
>>
>> And finally, the retrieval truck, as it started back to the hangar to 
>> repack the parachutes.
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20200911-P9113617.JPG.html
>>
>> -- 
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
>>
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-- 
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA



In reply to: Message from jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] IMG: Airport Visit)
Message from cartersxrd at gmail.com (RicCarter) ([Leica] IMG: Airport Visit)