Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/10

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Subject: [Leica] Tri Motor
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Fri Nov 10 14:57:09 2006
References: <13503e590611101316y11d9055pbe3c7dc54a8ab226@mail.gmail.com> <200611102243.kAAMhANZ092929@server1.waverley.reid.org>

Love those old aircraft. Being a photojournalist has afforded me quite a 
few nice flights. A Stearman, T28, a 1936 something( I can't remember 
the name of ) gliders, hot air balloons and a C130 jaunt through a 
hurricane. ;-)    I envy your Tri-Motor trip. They must still use them 
in Mexico and Latin America.

Walt

Marc James Small wrote:

> At 04:16 PM 11/10/2006, Roy Feldman wrote:
>
>> Is that a Ford Tr-Motor or a JU-52?  Quite a few years ago author Martin
>> Cadin bought one (a JU-52) that still flew. Rattled and leaked but still
>> got airborne. :-)
>>
>> It is the ford tri-motor that carried Adm.Byrd over the first air 
>> crossing
>> of the South Pole.
>
>
> I believe that there are several JU-52's still flying commercially.  I 
> know that there are still several Ford Tri-Motors flying 
> commerically:  I have ridden in one such.
>
> Marc
>
>
> msmall@aya.yale.edu
> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
>
>
>
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