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They are two different aircraft that would be best in two different environments. In big wide open areas with lots of lakes, like much of southern Canada, and Minnesota, those scoopers are great. Poor Ron, makes a false premise and then expands into more ignorance. Well, he sounds a lot less ignorant than the Tarvernaut. How many CL-415's have been sold in the western US? I know of no US orders resulting from the grounding of those two large types of tankers (C-130A, or PBY4-2). Hawkins and Powers lost both of those aircraft last year, and I certainly have not heard of them preparing to order a CL-415, nor have I heard about Neptune, Aero Union, ARDCO or International Air Response preparing to order any. I am not sure they could even afford them to buy them if they wanted to. The excess need is being taken up with SEATS...not Bombardiers.. But in the weste n states, the scoopers would not be near as useful. Alpine lakes surrounded by mountain peaks at around 10,000 MSL are not very good places to be trying to scoop water, especially during a summer day. Get back with us afeter you purchase a vowel, Ron. Guess the concept of a goodly chunk of the area in our western states not being all that compatable with fixed wing scoop operations is beyond the Tarvernaut as well; but then again, if he can invent a "recoiless" M102 for the AC-130, I guess it is pretty easy for him to declare that scoop operations in those mountain lakes is a piece of cake... Brooks Sigh....well at least Brooks sees my point. There is an OCCASIONAL fire in the southwest that might have a large enough body of water nearby for a CL-415, but its certainly not enough to begin basing CL-415s in the desert, even if John Tarver thinks it is a good idea. Dont expect to see new Bombardier scooper tankers at Winslow, Sierra Vista, Prescott, Pueblo, Albuquerque, or Alamogordo tanker bases any time soon. The bodies of water in the SW that might be near a fire, are far better served by Helos such as Sikorski/Erickson Skycranes and S-60 firehawks..than CL-415s. I saw some of those S-60 Firehawks in Missoula last month, and they are quite impressive in their capabilities. Erickson is building new Skycranes, since they have all the type certificates from Sikorsky now too. The fire the C-130A was lost on, was the Cannon Fire in California, which might help those doing a websearch for the file. There are also photos of the PB4Y-2 that were taken at the moment it had structural failure also..It was shortly afterwards in Colorado that it happened. Apparently the USAF had some similar failures on their C-130As too Ron Tucson AZ C-421 air ambulance |
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"Ron" wrote in message ... Sigh....well at least Brooks sees my point. No Ron, Brooks is a clueless idiot and you just look like a fool replying to him. |
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"Tarver Engineering" wrote in message ...
"Ron" wrote in message ... Sigh....well at least Brooks sees my point. No Ron, Brooks is a clueless idiot and you just look like a fool replying to him. Does anyone really value the Tarvernaut's opinion when it comes to clues, idiocy, or foolery? Or for that matter the subjects of aircraft systems or Civil War history (the only man known who preaches that the Confederacy was blockading the North, and not the other way around...)? I thought not... Brooks |
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Kevin Brooks wrote: "Tarver Engineering" wrote in message ... "Ron" wrote in message ... Sigh....well at least Brooks sees my point. No Ron, Brooks is a clueless idiot and you just look like a fool replying to him. Does anyone really value the Tarvernaut's opinion when it comes to clues, idiocy, or foolery? Or for that matter the subjects of aircraft systems or Civil War history (the only man known who preaches that the Confederacy was blockading the North, and not the other way around...)? I thought not... Brooks My wife the fifth grade teacher is covering the War of Northern Aggression in her class now. She comes home and tells me some of the silly things her students say when they are grasping to answer questions without having read the material. Today, I was going to tell her about a supposed adult who claimed the CSN blockaded the yankees, but I decided she wouldn't believe such a thing. Bob McKellar |
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On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 23:02:32 -0700, Hobo wrote:
In article , "Andrew Chaplin" wrote: How realistic is this plan, anyway? Are there any C-130 airframes out there to be had? Or, like John Cleese in the Cheese Shop sketch, is this an act of the purest optimism on the part of the procurement folks to pose the question in the first place. Why don't they buy the new Airbus military cargo plane? Because it's not going to fly for years and it will take a year or two after that until it's operational. The M400 is not a production aircraft at this time. Mary -- Mary Shafer "There are only two types of aircraft--fighters and targets" Major Doyle "Wahoo" Nicholson, USMC |
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