Pages on this Blog

▼
Friday, July 30, 2010

TBM Avenger - Part 2 - more history

›
A friend who is an aviation historian tells me the aircraft that you see in this video clip: First off the deck is a TBM; next, you are ...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

TBM Avenger - Part 1 - History and Specs

›
An article from wikipedia on the Avenger, including a listing all the variants, may be found here . The wikipedia article includes specifi...
Monday, July 26, 2010

TBM Avenger - introduction

›
This series of articles on the TBM Avenger is perhaps long over due. Pretty early on in my writing about aerial wildland firefighting, I l...
Friday, July 23, 2010

NJ Incident Management Team Type Two

›
Some information, in the form of a weblink, about the NJ Incident Management Teams, found its way into my e-mail the other day. I was intere...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

B-25 Mitchell: around the 'net

›
I am going to wrap up, at least for now, this series on the B-25 Mitchell air with links to sites focusing on the use of the B-25 as an air ...
Monday, July 19, 2010

WA wildfire (update 1)

›
KNDU has a couple of nice short videos showing the Cowiche fire, Flying over the Cowiche Fire and Aerial Footage of the Cowiche Fire, go her...

Wildfire in WA

›
A fire near Cowiche WA, reported on Sunday afternoon July 18 around 2:30 PM (PDT), is now burning in the order of 10,000 acres. References ...
Saturday, July 17, 2010

Lightening caused fires in So CA (Thursday evening 7/15/10)

›
When I came home on Thursday night at what was around 6:30 PM PDT, a friend had sent me link to an online scanner out of Hemet CA (courte...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010

B-25 and other war birds

›
You may want to go here and read what the person who posted this video to youtube has to say about the history of this video clip, along ...
Monday, July 12, 2010

Flying in the nose compartment of a B-25

›
I hope that you enjoy this video, flying in the nose compartment of the B-25 Mitchell known as the Tondelayo
Friday, July 09, 2010

B-25 Airtanker in Action (1984)

›
Here is video shot in 1984 of B-25 Mitchell Airtankers fighting a fire in the Canadian North West Territories. Enjoy! I believe that the l...
Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Rudy Billberg: B-25 air tankers in Alaska (1960s)

›
In my lead in to this series of articles on the B-25, I mentioned that my inspiration this series was reading a book by Rudy Billberg, In t...
2 comments:
Monday, July 05, 2010

NJ Wildfire: Cedar Bridge Fire video

›
This is a very short video shot at the Cedar Bridge Fire (just north of Warren Grove in Ocean County, NJ) on June 26. From what I understa...
Saturday, July 03, 2010

Enhanced Fire Danger in NJ

›
Friday, July 02, 2010

Return of the oldest B-25 to America

›
This is a short video on the return of "Grumpy", a B-25 WWII bomber (serial # 43-3318) to the U.S. For more information go here ...
2 comments:

B-25 series to resume

›
I will soon be resuming the series of articles that I began last week, if not today than sometime over the weekend.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Kudos to the NJ Forest Fire Service

›
Well I go away for a few days and came back to heightened fire concerns here in NJ. I reported in the NJ Forest Fire Service section on th...
Monday, June 28, 2010

T-44 overshoots runway at Jeffco - crew uninjured

›
When I got back home yesterday, I had four e-mails from friends telling me about that Neptune Aviation's T-44 overshot a runway (or a ...

B-25 in WWII Pacific Theatre

›
I am posting a four part video series shot by WWII troops from "Lefty's Wolk Pack", 7th Army Air Force, 41st Bomb Group, 48th...
Sunday, June 27, 2010

Major Fire in the NJ Pine Barrens: Cedar Bridge Fire

›
I was out of town for a few days, back today, and only just found out about the Cedar Bridge that is burning in the NJ Pine Barrens. I'l...