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Subject: [Leica] judith....
From: passaro.vince at gmail.com (Vince Passaro)
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:08:52 -0400
References: <95093D9A-C5C1-416B-9381-B986059D18A1@gmail.com> <E5D31E5F-ACD3-441A-85B2-72CAE0857BED@gmail.com> <E17F1A42-0EA8-456A-97D7-A20C96B70557@gmail.com> <19b6d42d1003202007l294c1595v77b86da20fc089b2@mail.gmail.com> <BED88ABE-1D44-48B7-A3BA-C260574739AE@gmail.com> <36172e5a1003210125q6c4c9b8ds448fd24e8ce9b65@mail.gmail.com>

I assumed they duct taped it to the side of the plane but damn it just
didn't hold.

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 4:25 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> Umm well the stories get somewhat distorted on-line. Not many windows in
> the
> F-4 Phantom to drop cameras out of.
> The pilot would be an unhappy camper if you were to open the canopy in
> flight.
> Solms does have cameras on display that have been retrieved from certain
> adventures.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hoppyman/2/s008.jpg.html
>
>
> Cheers
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>
>
> On 21 March 2010 18:09, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Mar 20, 2010, at 8:07 PM, Vince Passaro wrote:
> >
> > > Steve I just read somewhere today -- on Wikipedia perhaps -- that there
> > > resides in the Leica Museum in Solms a Leicaflex SL and (I think) 35mm
> > > Elmarit that fell 25,000 feet out of a Phantom Jet -- 25000 feet! Like
> > FOUR
> > > MILES -- and was deemed repairable by the Leica technicians. I do hope
> > this
> > > is true, and that someday I will see it.
> >
> > > V
> > >
> >
>
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