Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]But was the French design made of Balsa wood? - -----Original Message----- From: raimo.korhonen@pp2.inet.fi [mailto:raimo.korhonen@pp2.inet.fi] Sent: Monday, May 03, 1999 1:00 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: [Leica] Re: Mitsubishi > From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> > Subject: [Leica] On the Profitability of Optical Companies > <snip> > > (After all, a thousand people know Nikon cameras to everyone who realizes that > Mitsubishi owns a major ship-building works and is getting back into > aviation, a field they have tended to stay out of since their last effort, > the Zero fighter, left production a half-century back! Cīmon Marc - surely you know that Mitsubishi has built airplanes after the famous Zero. They have made many types of planes both licence built and to their own designs. I think that the Mitsubishi MU-2 was quite successful. But of course what I expected was a mention of the Zeroīs engine which was a copy of the French Gnome-LeRhone design. All the best! Raimo Photos at: http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen