Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's a Seabee, one of my favorites amphibians. It was in a James Bond movie! On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:49 PM, <lrzeitlin at aol.com> wrote: > Now that airplanes have appeared in the LUG it might be a good time to > disgorge my file of aircraft pictures. During my years of working in the > military/industrial complex I spent most of my time on futuristic aircraft > that thankfully were never used in anger. In fact most were cancelled > before > they became operational. These included the Avro CF 105, the XB 70 Valkyrie > bomber and it's smaller sibling, the XF 108 Rapier fighter, and the > Dynasoar > space plane, the distant ancestor of the Space Shuttle. Look these up in > Wikipedia to get an idea of what they were. > > I'm not a pilot. My total hands on experience with flying is soloing in a > Piper Cub and about 10 hours of helicopter training in the Army. But at the > time I was a systems engineer and was considered adept at merging the > concerns of airframe designers, electronics engineers and flight crew. > Still, I was fascinated with aircraft, especially old planes, and took > pictures whenever I had the chance. Which was not too often during my > working days because of security restrictions. So most of my pics were made > adventitiously. > > Here is the first of the series. An abandoned amphibian that I stumbled > upon when biking near my home. It is on the shore in an old seaplane > landing > area in the small Hudson River town of Verplanck. I was told that some > aviation enthusiasts intend to fix it up and fly it again. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Seaplane+1.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Seaplane+2.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Seaplane+3.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Seaplane+4.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Seaplane+5.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Seaplane+6.jpg.html > > Larry Z > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/ Natchitoches, Louisiana (+31.754164,-093.099080) USA