Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/06/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nice shot, Jim. There was a clue in the photo, so you didn't have to tell us which one was yourself :-) The Irish (Gaelic) for Jim is Seamus, and you are a LUG and Beyond Famous Seamus. Douglas On 24/06/2021 18:18, Jim Nichols wrote: > A local fly-in in 2006 attracted a lot of people to the airport, > including a number of retirees who enjoyed an excuse to get outside.? > Four AEDC retirees were greeting each other when a younger > acquaintance asked to take our picture. He sent me an 8x10 which has > been on a shelf in my office for the past fifteen years. Now 91 and > limited in my activities, I find the photo sets me to thinking of the > past. > > Pictured are two Jims and two Cliffs.? I am easy to recognize by the > Leica IIIf and an SLR around my neck.? The Cliff next to me was a very > young B-24 belly turret gunner in WWII, and later joined me to > supervise operations of the world's largest supersonic wind tunnel. > The next Jim was an instrumentation supervisor, and the next Cliff was > a computer technician.? All of us worked long night shifts in the > past, because that was when the electrical power was cheapest, and we > used large quantities of it. > > Sorry, the feet are cut off, but that is the way the photo was shot. > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20210624-P6240092.JPG.html > > I don't recall seeing any of these guys since that day in 2006, but > the photo is a cross-section of the past, for me. And, in Tennessee, > we do have some colorful chacters. >