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Re: [OM] Aerial Photography/Leer Jet

Subject: Re: [OM] Aerial Photography/Leer Jet
From: Gary Edwards <edwardsg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 20:08:06 -0500

Gregg Iverson wrote:

> One of my student's parents used to work for the State of Maryland.  He
> once told me that they flew over the state (I think in a Leer Jet)

They only used the Leer Jet when the day's schedule included overflights of
the Happy Bottoms Nudist Camp!  Otherwise, it's Learjet, after Bill Lear, a
hell of an engineer and entrepreneur, who conceived, but did not design the
original airplane (a team of Swiss engineers did, based on a Swiss trainer.)

Gary Edwards



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