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Offline medic09

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Fire Fighting Plane
« on: December 05, 2010, 07:54:42 AM »
Apparently, this was hired by the State of Israel to fight the Carmel fire.  Very cool!

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Offline KeithTurk

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Re: Fire Fighting Plane
« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2010, 09:05:38 AM »
WOW..... Very cool... thanks for sharing it... 

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Re: Fire Fighting Plane
« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2010, 09:19:22 AM »
That looks pretty big!

 We had the Martin Mars bomber on the fires we had here.. they looked pretty impressive flying 300 ft above town. Some of the other bomber we  were watching on the beach one day , they would be  just missing the treetops at the beach, you could see the pilots faces..... really intersting to watch..
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Re: Fire Fighting Plane
« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2010, 10:01:35 AM »
Still like the Martin Mars. The sound of those big radial engines is music. and Cliff.
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Re: Fire Fighting Plane
« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2010, 11:14:56 AM »
They used to keep them at Pat Bay, they were all ex military crew, good to see them still going, at one point they were doing a drop and lost power, they lost president, secretary/treasurer, vice pres when they didn't clear a ridge.
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Re: Fire Fighting Plane
« Reply #5 on: December 05, 2010, 11:20:59 AM »
I think that was on Mt. Finlayson just outside of Victoria, B.C. many years ago. I ride by that ridge fairly often.
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Re: Fire Fighting Plane
« Reply #6 on: December 06, 2010, 05:08:41 AM »
Yeah Cliff I think that was the one.
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