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Saturday, May 30, 2009

Air Attack: California 2008

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Take six minutes, go here and watch this six minute video. You will see a variety of air tankers, helicopters, and a helitack team working ...
Thursday, May 28, 2009

Raw footage of CA-SCU Mustang - Wildland Fire - Henry Coe Park

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A couple of weeks ago I was reading the initial attack hotlist forums on wildlandfire.com where I found a link to some raw footage from ktvu...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

And Speaking of SEATs

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Take four minutes and go and check out this awesome video on Patrick's Aviation on SEATs working fires in France. Some of this is taken...
Sunday, May 24, 2009

Reflections, S-2T's, SEATs and initial attack

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I love the light tankers (S-2T’s and single-engine air tankers) in a special way. Perhaps it is because I live in NJ, and I have grown to ap...
Friday, May 22, 2009

From a former air tanker pilot in memory of Mike Flynn

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This story was sent to me by Gordon, a former air tanker pilot. I post this here with his permission. In 2003, flying on a fire near McCall,...
Thursday, May 21, 2009

Associated Airtanker Pilots

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I have had the pleasure of spending time on the Associated Airtanker Pilots (AAP) website . There is a lot of good info on this site, includ...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Evergreen 747

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Evergreen International Aviation announced on March 24, 2009   (link no longer works)  that its B747 supertanker received interim certifica...
Monday, May 18, 2009

DC-10 tanker: videos

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For another good video, see this youtube video , and be sure to read the explanation of the video.
Saturday, May 16, 2009

DC-10 Tankers: Tanker 910 history and specs

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The first of the Very Large Airtankers (VLAT) put in service is tanker 910, first seeing service on a call when needed (CWN) contract with C...

Very Large Airtankers

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The last group of air tankers that I am writing about are known as the very large airtankers (VLAT). These are DC-10’s and 747’s. There are ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Martin Mars: US Forest Service contract and video tour

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The Hawaii Mars will be under a new contract with the U.S. Forest Service this year, based at Lake Elsinore, California from June 1 through ...
Monday, May 11, 2009

Martin Mars (part 1 of 2): history and specs

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The Martin Mars, capable of landing on water, was developed for the U.S. Navy towards the end of the second World War as a transport...
Saturday, May 09, 2009

S-2T: end of season retardant tank maintenance

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At the end of the season, or when maintenance on the retardant drop system is required during the season, the retardant tank is washed out. ...

Jesusita Fire, Santa Barbara CA

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For those of you who are interested in reading reports of the Jesusita Fire that has burned around 8,700 hundred acres as of early this morn...
Thursday, May 07, 2009

S-2T: in action (2 of 2)

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If you have nine minutes and want to see a good video of a few S-2T's in action along at a helicopter with a bucket working fires in Cal...

S-2T: in action (1 of 2)

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Here are a couple of very short videos of S-2T's in action. In the first video, the S-2T is working with a lead plane in the 2007 Zaca F...
Tuesday, May 05, 2009

martin mars

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S-2T: making the retardant drop

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When an air tanker such as an S-2T is deployed to a wildland fire, the air tanker pilot will be in touch with either the incident commander ...
Sunday, May 03, 2009

S-2T: Retardant loading at Ryan AAB

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Loading retardant onto the S-2 is a reasonably simple process. The yellow hoses in the photo are called pit supply lines, running from the...
Friday, May 01, 2009

Retardant at Ryan AAB and S-2's

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In today’s post I am going to be writing about retardant mixing at Ryan Air Attack Base (AAB). This is possible because I have learned abou...