On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:13:28 -0500, "Trajan"
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"Dave Kearton" wrote in message
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"Trajan" wrote in message
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Cool montage Dave, or hot maybe!
Could one call these single engine jobs "water fighters" or "water
fighter-bombers"?
Thanks,
Bill W






Thanks, sometimes good, close, overhead footage is hard to find.


The tragic fires in Victoria last year have opened up the discussion about
larger water bombing aircraft in Australia. The Victorian government,
responding as politicians do, have contracted a DC-10 water bomber for
this fire season

For the last 10-15 years there have been fairly loud and regular calls for
a brace of Canadair CL-415s to be based in Australia - from everybody
except the fire services, who seem to be happy with the fleet of leased
agricultural aircraft.


Time will tell, I suppose. We could always drop politicians on the
fires, they don't burn that much.



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Cheers

Dave Kearton


Careful you don't drop one of the really gassy ones, could bring down the
aircraft!
Saw a news blurb about the temps in Adelaide, 30 degrees at 6:00 in the
morning, high of 40. Whew....
We could use some of that heat here in the mid-central US, we haven't been
above freezing for two weeks.
Oh well, I'll remember it more fondly come July.

Stay cool,
Bill Wolcott

Seattle, in the far northwest USA, was several degrees ~warmer~
yesterday than Miami, Florida (diagonally across the US, supposedly in
the tropics.)

El Nino, dontchaknow.