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Monday, April 25, 2011
They (as in the P-3's) are baack
By now I suspect that some of you already know that Aero Union's P-3 tankers are back in the air, see this National Examiner Article by Bill Gabbert. I'd like to thank a friend who sent me the link to Bill's article over the weekend.
I thought that some of you would enjoy seeing these short clips of the P-3 tankers in action.
Updated on August 3, 2015: The US Forest Service terminated its contract with Aero-Union for their Lockheed P-3's, going out of business a month later. (see my articles of July 30, 2011, August 17, 2011, and January 18, 2012).
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