Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/09/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Jim, what an amazing yoke and priced to sell - an aircraft for the price of a good lens!!! Mind you looking at the struts to that wing, a strong belief in a merciful lord would be a necessary asset to FRED pilots :-) I'm sure it works perfectly though! Douglas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2015 4:11 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: In Keeping With the Battle of Britain on OM List > Hi Douglas, > Give my best wishes to your wife. Thanks for your interest in the photo > of Eric. He was 17 when the war ended, and, since the RAF had a pilot > surplus at that time, he was assigned to a bomb disposal unit. He later > flew gliders, and was one of Britain's earliest designers of homebuilt > airplanes. > > Wing Commander Chris Barker, who is a member of the Olympus list, came up > with two links that you might find interesting. > > http://cluttonfred.info <http://cluttonfred.info/> > > http://cluttonfred.info/eric <http://cluttonfred.info/eric> > > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > > On 9/20/2015 6:20 AM, Douglas Barry wrote: >> Jim, trying to play catch up here as my wife wasn't too well. That's an >> interesting shot, Unusual to find an RAF man marooned in the US. What did >> he fly in the RAF? >> >> Douglas >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Nichols" >> <jhnichols at lighttube.net> >> To: "LUG at Leica-Users.org" <lug at leica-users.org>; "Olympus Camera >> Discussion" <olympus at thomasclausen.net> >> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 8:41 PM >> Subject: [Leica] IMG: In Keeping With the Battle of Britain on OM List >> >> >>> There has been some excellent coverage of the Battle of Britain >>> Remembrance Celebration today on the Olympus List. I just happened to >>> run in to an RAF veteran, a couple of years older than myself, at the >>> airport today. While he can still fly, he has trouble hauling himself >>> into and out of his Luscombe. >>> >>> His constant companion is his current parakeet, a youngster named Bill. >>> >>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Eric+and+Bill.tif.html >>> >>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Bill+and+Eric.tif.html >>> >>> I thought I would add these images to the remembrance of the RAF. >>> >>> -- >>> Jim Nichols >>> Tullahoma, TN USA >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >