waterbombers and grassfires in Adelaide waterbombers and grassfires in Adelaide.wmv [1/4]

On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:11:42 +1030, "Dave Kearton"
wrote:

"Trajan" wrote in message
m...
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.

We're gonna need a bigger fire...