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

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Subject: [Leica] Tri Motor
From: raimo.m.korhonen at uusikaupunki.fi (Raimo K)
Date: Sat Nov 11 00:30:12 2006
References: <13503e590611101316y11d9055pbe3c7dc54a8ab226@mail.gmail.com> <200611102243.kAAMhANZ092929@server1.waverley.reid.org>

The only Ju-52 still flying that I know is owned by Lufthansa.
All the best!
Raimo K
Personal photography homepage at:
http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marc James Small" <marcsmall@comcast.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>; <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 12:38 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Tri Motor


> 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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Replies: Reply from walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson) ([Leica] Tri Motor)
In reply to: Message from roy at detroitphotographic.com (Roy Feldman) ([Leica] Tri Motor)
Message from marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small) ([Leica] Tri Motor)