"B25flyer" wrote in message
...
...... Seems that a certain
company, with some older 747s, based in a smaller town in Oregon is
looking
into making it happen.

I'm quite familiar with them. Using one of their 747s as a water bomber
would just be one more entry on the long list of bizarre ideas that they've
come up with. Ironically, some of those bizarre ideas have worked, and that
guy has spent a lot of years in the forestry/aviation arena, so don't put
anything off the table quite yet. However, I would think that mod costs on
a 747 would be easily prohibitive, not to mention operational logistics.