Below is a link about Evergreen Aviation's 747 that carries 20,000 gallons of
fire retardant. The jet fly from Oregon down to the Southern California area
on Monday.
$60 million and 7 years in development it's the 747 first paying job.
http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_090109_news_evergreen_aviation_firefighting.13b63d366.html?npc
Dennis,
Salmon Creek, WA
----- Original Message -----
From: "DAVID CIV DFAS HASCALL" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2009 6:24:59 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Latest from Mount Wilson
And to top it off, these planes aren't "spring chickens," either.
Hawaii Mars (II) first flew in 1946! I see that they converted a few
DC-10 to tanker service. Wonder why they did not convert many Lockheed
Tristars (my favorite) to similar roles? The RAF uses them as air
refuelers.
Dave in Indy
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Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 17:41:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bob Coomler <[email protected]>
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] Latest from Mount Wilson
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If my memory and math are correct, that is something like 60,000 pounds
of water exiting in a very, very short amount of time. Wow! Hats off to
the flight crew and everyone involved in the fire fighting.
Bob Coomler
Cloverdale, CA
--- On Tue, 9/1/09, Scott Fybush <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Scott Fybush <[email protected]>
> Subject: [IRCA] Latest from Mount Wilson
> To: "abdx" <[email protected]>, "Mailing list for the International
Radio Club of America" <[email protected]>, [email protected]
> Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 5:01 PM
> If you want to see something really
> remarkable, watch the webstream from Fox 11 in LA
> (myfoxla.com) at about 8:15 PM EDT/5:15 PM PDT, as the
> Martin Mars tanker plane carrying 7200 gallons of water
> comes around to make another targeted drop on Mount Wilson.
> Amazing stuff.
>
> The plane made its first drop there at about 7:15 PM EDT.
>
> s
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