Now for the fun stuff. Here is a sequence of photos (below) of Brian Lash and Rick Langstrom in Butler's tanker 66 on the Deer Ridge Fire near the Medford OR airport on or about September 22, 2009. Mike Bitney took these photos and sent them to Larry. It is a great sequence of photos. For those of you who are interested, here is a link to Warbird Information Exchange (WIX) where Larry posted these and other photos of tanker 66 and tanker 62 in action. There are some other nice action shots on this same WIX thread of tanker 62 in action in 2008 here.
I expect to make two more posts in this series of articles on DC-7 tankers, one more on DC-7 tankers fighting fires and a final post where I offer my own reflections. So, stay tuned. In the meantime, enjoy these photos.
So as not to confuse, the video is taken at Fox Field in Lancaster, CA (probably in 2007).
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