Easy, - The Canadair, piston or turboprop.

It is DESIGNED to do this work..

Presently holds the records for dumping on fires...

Some place in Brazil in think one crew made a drop every 55
seconds, for almost 2 hours! (fire was right beside the lake)

Watched one load from my boat a few yrs ago... They hit full power
as soon as they touch the water, loads in a few seconds.

I is tough work. I spoke to one of the pilots, he showed me his
helmet, gouged and beat up from hitting the side of the cockpit in the
turbulance over the fire. He described it as "up 50 ft, down 50 ft,
right 50 ft and left 50 ft...all at the same time"...

Dave





On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 08:41:25 -0700, "patrick mitchel"
wrote:

After watching the multiplicity of ac doing their jobs on the southern cal
fires this last week and hearing that the guvmint C130 had the wrong sized
tanks and the forestry dept and said guvmint were haggling over what should
be done, I thought I'd ask what is the opinions of others regarding what
current - or hypothetical craft would be considered for the role. Thanks Pat