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What kind of plane is this?
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Roy Smith wrote:
What type is the plane in the picture? http://nytimes.com/2003/10/27/national/27CND-FIRE.html Gonna be pretty tough to answer your question when you need a subscription to the New York Times to see it. -john |
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Roy Smith wrote: What type is the plane in the picture? http://nytimes.com/2003/10/27/national/27CND-FIRE.html Is is a twin-engine, twin tail, turbine powered airplane used by the Fire Fighters? If so it's an OV-10 Bronco. -- Dale L. Falk There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing around with airplanes. http://home.gci.net/~sncdfalk/flying.html |
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On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:02:53 -0900, Dale wrote:
In article , Roy Smith wrote: What type is the plane in the picture? http://nytimes.com/2003/10/27/national/27CND-FIRE.html Is is a twin-engine, twin tail, turbine powered airplane used by the Fire Fighters? If so it's an OV-10 Bronco. No. It has two round engines and it's dumping red fire retardant. Don |
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Dale wrote: In article , Roy Smith wrote: What type is the plane in the picture? http://nytimes.com/2003/10/27/national/27CND-FIRE.html Is is a twin-engine, twin tail, turbine powered airplane used by the Fire Fighters? If so it's an OV-10 Bronco. I apologise to the various people who couldn't get to the image because it requires subscription to the NY Times. The subscription is free, but I can understand people not wanting to subscribe. It is indeed a fire fighting tanker. I found a picture of the OV-10, and this is definately not one of those. The picture is from head-on, looking slightly up at the plane, so the tail is hidden behind the fuselage. It is a twin engine, with three-bladed props, but they don't look like turbines. There's a large diameter (almost half the diameter of the prop blades) circular cowling and I think I can make out cowl flaps open. Looks like radial engines. In the picture, it looks like a mid-wing design, but that might just be the odd camera angle. Could be low wing. Definately not high wing. It looks vagely like a DC-3. Ah, wait, here's the answer. A bit more googling led me to the California Department of Forrestry (which explains the "CDF" painted on the underside of the wing) web site, which led me to http://www.fire.ca.gov/FireEmergency...n/Aviation.asp Looking at the pictures, it looks like this is an S-2A. Wow, in the pics on the CDF web site http://www.fire.ca.gov/FireEmergency...on/pdf/S2A.pdf is sure DOES look like a high wing. Strange how pictures from different camera angles can be so misleading. |
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Roy Smith writes:
In article , Dale wrote: In article , Roy Smith wrote: What type is the plane in the picture? http://nytimes.com/2003/10/27/national/27CND-FIRE.html Is is a twin-engine, twin tail, turbine powered airplane used by the Fire Fighters? If so it's an OV-10 Bronco. I apologise to the various people who couldn't get to the image because it requires subscription to the NY Times. The subscription is free, but I can understand people not wanting to subscribe. A subscription to the online version is probably used only for tracking purposes. I've had that subscription for years, and have never received any spam from that organization. -Jack |
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Looks like it might be an S2-F Tracker.
Brent On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:44:21 GMT, Don Tuite wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:02:53 -0900, Dale wrote: In article , Roy Smith wrote: What type is the plane in the picture? http://nytimes.com/2003/10/27/national/27CND-FIRE.html Is is a twin-engine, twin tail, turbine powered airplane used by the Fire Fighters? If so it's an OV-10 Bronco. No. It has two round engines and it's dumping red fire retardant. Don |
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"Roy Smith" wrote in message ... What type is the plane in the picture? http://nytimes.com/2003/10/27/national/27CND-FIRE.html It's a Grumman S-2. |
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"Brent" wrote in message ... Looks like it might be an S2-F Tracker. The designation was S2F prior to October 1962, S-2 after. |
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