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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Airplane ID?
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 18:40:25 -0500
References: <CA+yJO1DRkMy=u+WeB7zK=6A3b_JtqrCLRBGj8XPnhwPpzpuK3A@mail.gmail.com><CAE3QcF5Xj6ZFw3oJFUuCuHEGaNKNMvC1TifW+k5d9uskqWsR6A@mail.gmail.com><519BFC54.3000504@gmx.de> <4CD7A62E-2D0B-480C-8A3A-E6AFC308DFFA@cartersxrd.net>

That early Sky King twin was a surplus Cessna Bobcat, or UC-78.  They could 
be bought for a song back then, so he named it the Songbird.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "RicCarter" <ric at cartersxrd.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Airplane ID?


> reminds me of one of Sky King's planes
>
> ric
>
>
> On May 21, 2013, at 6:59 PM, Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi Tina,
>>
>> looks more like a Beechcraft 18 Twin Beech "Expeditor" to me - the 
>> "Aggie" Geoff suggests has a much more boxy, upright, greenhouse of a 
>> cockpit.
>>
>> Expeditors were also flown by the Honduran Airforce
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>> Douglas
>>
>>
>> On 22.05.2013 00:37, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
>>> Tina I think this may be an Avro Anson
>>>
>>>
>>> *Breathe in, breathe out, move on* -- Jimmy Buffett
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Geoff
>>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>>>
>>>
>>> On 22 May 2013 07:10, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> PESO:
>>>>
>>>> Any of you airplane buffs know what kind of plane this is?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.pbase.com/image/150324376
>>>>
>>>> I was told at the time it was a WWII bomber.  I flew in it with a 
>>>> medical
>>>> mission group to the Mosquito Coast after Hurricane Mitch.  We loaded 
>>>> the
>>>> plane with so many medical supplies that it had to circle very slowly
>>>> around and around until it got enough altitude to get over the 
>>>> mountains
>>>> around Tegucigalpa.  I was the co-pilot ;-)  sat in the seat and wore 
>>>> the
>>>> earphones, anyway!
>>>>
>>>> C&C greatly appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Tina
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Tina Manley, ASMP
>>>> www.tinamanley.com
>>>>
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