Fwd: Water bombing forest fires.

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From: "Gary Johnson" <gjohnson144@comcast.net>
Date: July 17, 2013 10:13:04 PM GMT-06:00
To: "Gary Johnson" <gjohnson144@comcast.net>
Subject: FW: Water bombing forest fires.

From: Eddie Jung  
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 8:55 PM
To: Eddie Jung
Subject: FW: Water bombing forest fires.

 

No milk runs for these guys.

 

Date: Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 6:51 PM
Subject: Fw: Water bombing forest fires.
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These are fun to watch even if you are not a pilot!  Scary business!!

 

The old company, Bombardier Aerospace, makes these. They don't 'motor around" to fill the tanks---they touch down at approach speed, open the fill scoops, add lots of power, and the tanks fill in seconds. There's one scene in the film where you can see the two tank level gauges rapidly go up. The other neat thing is watching the magnitude of the flight control inputs, especially aileron, as they are maneuvering down low---sometimes the pilot is literally going stop to stop. Real flying!

43 Grupo 2012

 

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