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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Airport Visit
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:02:17 -0500
References: <A0900413597E45ADAE98698B33EC2363@jimnichols> <506626AA.8030701@hemenway.com>

Thanks, Jim.  Could have been an L-4.  I've never seen one in military 
configuration.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Hemenway" <jim at hemenway.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Airport Visit


> Jim:
>
> Nice clear shot of the T-33 tail.
>
> All I know about small planes is what I learned in the 50's while a cadet 
> in the Civil Air Patrol.  I had a lot of rides in a small plane with no 
> doors, just a rope on each side... an L4 perhaps?
>
> Jim
>
> On 9/28/12 5:40 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>> A closed-course air race is scheduled for tomorrow, starting and 
>> finishing at the local airport.  I spotted the first entry to arrive, and 
>> spent a few minutes talking with him.  The airplane is a Van's RV-6A.  He 
>> said he and his wife spent 8 years building the airplane.  She died of 
>> cancer in January, and he misses her very much.  He took off for a flight 
>> to check out the race route.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/RV-6A.jpg.html
>>
>> I learned to fly in 1957-58, beginning in a Piper J3C-65 Cub.  It taught 
>> me a lot!  I recently learned that a new owner is restoring the airplane, 
>> so I took this opportunity to get a photo of it once more.  There are a 
>> few details left to complete, but the old girl looks just fine.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/1946+J-3+Cub.jpg.html
>>
>> To make room in a hangar for race registration, etc., the Red Knight T-33 
>> was sitting outside.  Walking past it, I noted this prominent warning:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Beware+of+Blast.jpg.html
>>
>> All with the E-1 and Leica Elmarit-R 28mm.
>>
>> Comments and critiques welcomed.
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
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