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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Goodyear Blimp
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 23:08:02 -0500
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I wish so, too, but you wouldn't have relished the hiking I had to do to 
get those pics. :-)

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 10/13/2017 11:04 PM, Sonny Carter wrote:
> I wish I were there.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> Sonny Carter
> http://www.SonC.com/look
>
>
>> On Oct 13, 2017, at 9:41 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Late today, the airport manager informed me that one of the Goodyear 
>> Blimps was going to remain overnight at the Tullahoma Airport.  It was 
>> circling away from the airport, awaiting the arrival of the ground crew.  
>>  When I arrived at the airport, the blimp was west of the active area of 
>> the airport.  Camera around my neck, and an extra battery in my pocket, I 
>> hiked about a half mile across the rough grass and one active runway to 
>> the area where he was to be tied down.  The crew saw that I wanted 
>> pictures, and, with time on their hands, they circled and made approaches 
>> to give me several angles.  My biggest problem was that the setting sun 
>> was in my face, and I didn't relish hiking another half mile to get the 
>> sun to my back.  So, what you see is what I was able to get.
>>
>> This is one of the new Goodyear craft, N1A, and is actually a German-made 
>> Zeppelin, with some internal structure, not really a blimp, but is still 
>> classified as a blimp.
>>
>> Cabin
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20171013-DSCF5869.JPG.html
>>
>> Waiting for the ground crew
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20171013-DSCF5895.JPG.html
>>
>> Circling above the Beech Party
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20171013-DSCF5890.JPG.html
>>
>> In late afternoon sun
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20171013-DSCF5875.JPG.html
>>
>> Still waiting at sundown
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20171013-DSCF5900.JPG.html
>>
>> These may be viewed LARGE.
>>
>> Comments and critiques welcomed and appreciated.
>>
>> -- 
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
>>
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In reply to: Message from jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] IMG: Goodyear Blimp)
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