As I mentioned to Chuck, the company is pretty quiet about their work.
As you probably know, in order to increase productivity, agricultural
aircraft have been beefed up and fitted with powerful turboprop
powerplants in the last few years. This company appears to take this
further, and adapt those machines for other purposes, such as
"inexpensive" ground support aircraft for developing countries. I have
also seen them with helicopters fitted with special gear for law
enforcement agencies.
They once asked me not to take closeups because they don't want to draw
attention to their work, but I recently noted a couple of flight images
among those being displayed on a large screen in the terminal, so they
are apparently a little less cautious now.
Thanks for looking. And, up close, it is not that small.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
On 12/9/2015 11:40 AM, ChrisB wrote:
It’s a strange looking little machine, Jim.
The tree looks great.
Chris
On 8 Dec 2015, at 20:01, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I took the E-1 and Takumar 50 along as I ran some errands this morning, and
ended, as I often do, with a visit to the airport. Beautiful day, but fairly
quiet.
This year's Christmas tree is up, with a party scheduled later in the week.
http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Airport+Christmas+2015.TIFF.html
<http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Airport+Christmas+2015.TIFF.html>
And a developmental aircraft was doing some testing. I watched a couple of
takeoff runs at a distance, which I knew would have to be cropped. E-1 images
CAN be cropped, if one is willing to rely on Focus Magic and Neat Image to
compensate.
http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Developmental+Aircraft+Takeoff.tif.html
<http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Developmental+Aircraft+Takeoff.tif.html>
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