Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/20

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Subject: [Leica] Airplanes
From: pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)
Date: Mon Aug 20 02:08:57 2007
References: <46C90F97.1080105@halcyon.com> <00d701c7e2df$c770eec0$6101a8c0@jimnichols> <46C92B06.6030906@gmx.de>

Try this link...the caption is interesting vis-a-vis what is which plane:

http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/McMahan/3160.htm

Peter Dzwig

Douglas Sharp wrote:
> Hi,
> the information I found is that the American Pilgrim is in fact a 
> Fairchild, which would explain why  "American " as a manufacturer 
> doesn't come up
> http://www.aerofiles.com/_fair.html
> It's about  a quarter  of the way down the page , listed as 100A, 100B 
> or Y1C-24 - pictures too
> Cheers
> Douglas
> 
> Jim Nichols wrote:
>> Larry,
>>
>> The image comes up fine for me.  I've never run across the airplane, 
>> and the AOPA registry has nothing on the manufacturer or model name.
>>
>> I did a search and found the following link that you might find 
>> interesting.
>>
>> http://www.lynden.com/lynden_ink/2007/mar07.pdf
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Bullis" <cif@halcyon.com>
>> To: <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 10:50 PM
>> Subject: [Leica] Airplanes
>>
>>
>>> The historic aircraft discussion is a live issue for me because I'm 
>>> dealing with my own history; my father died at work as a Pan American 
>>> captain flying regular bush freight and passenger service in Alaska 
>>> during WWII.  Since there seem to be some aviation buffs in this 
>>> group I'll risk posting this non-Leica image; made with an ancient 
>>> Kodak postcard camera (I have most of that camera, recovered from the 
>>> crash).  The aircraft was an American Pilgrim, made by General 
>>> Aviation.  The date was 1943 or 44. I believe there are no more than 
>>> two of these planes left; the Smithsonian never heard of it and the 
>>> Museum of Flight doesn't have one.  I have seen one, as a former 
>>> president of Alaska Airlines had one and it was parked at SEA for 
>>> awhile.  The accident is reported in Greg Liefer's book _Broken 
>>> Wings_, which is about crashes in Alaska, including that of Wiley Post.
>>>
>>> Here's the link to the picture: 
>>> http://farm1.static.flickr.com/45/119152530_ffc7e0cbec_o.jpg
>>>
>>> I've had some trouble getting to the links posted on this group so 
>>> far; if you want this and can't get it, let me know.
>>>
>>> Larry Bullis
>>>
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In reply to: Message from cif at halcyon.com (Larry Bullis) ([Leica] Airplanes)
Message from jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] Airplanes)
Message from douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp) ([Leica] Airplanes)