Hi Paul,
Thanks for the kind words. My first flight, in the Fall of 1947, was in
the back seat of a 7AC, from one grass field to another. However, I
never got to fly one. I did all of my Private Pilot training in a Piper
J-3 Cub, of the same vintage.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
On 3/25/2015 10:54 AM, Paul Laughlin wrote:
I really like the Aeronca. One of my uncles had one of those in the
late '40s and early '50s. He used to land it on a cow pasture on my
Grandfather's dairy farm in Idaho. A bit of a trick, sometimes, with
a power line on one end and a cottonwood grove at the other.
Paul in Portland OR
On 24 Mar 15, at 19:41, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
The first thing that caught my eye this morning was the contrasting
stablemates in the corner of this hangar, a powered glider in front
of a
charter jet.
http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Stablemates+sm.jpg.html
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http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Stablemates+sm.jpg.html>
Then a breeze from the past brought in a newly restored Aeronca 7AC
from
the late 1940s.
http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Aeronca+7AC+sm.jpg.html
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http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Aeronca+7AC+sm.jpg.html>
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