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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Stopped by the Airport
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:20:35 -0500
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About a week ago, a C-47 in D-Day paint stopped here for fuel.? I 
followed it online through Mississippi and Arkansas until it landed in 
the Austin area about sundown.? It takes a lot of money and work, but 
they just keep on going.

On 9/13/21 3:03 PM, Don Dory via LUG wrote:
> Lovely to see the old planes still being worked on.  Our local
> Commemorative Air Force finished it's restoration of a P39 and sent it back
> to it's home airport, sigh.  I would have liked to see it fly at their
> annual air show.
>
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 12:47 PM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
> wrote:
>
>> After keeping a medical appointment, I stopped by the airport for a few
>> minutes.  I found a former U.S. Navy T-28 trainer sitting out front
>> prior to departure.  In the far background, the DC-3 "Mr. Douglas"
>> awaits the installation of its engines and avionics, the overhaul having
>> been interrupted, like everything else, by Covid.
>>
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20210913-DSCF7434-2-Enhanced.jpg.html
>>
>> --
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
>>
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>
-- 
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA



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