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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Douglas A-26 Invader: Military History and Specifications

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direct link to video I have great respect for an airplane that has such a long history. The Douglas A-26 Invader saw service in the ...
Monday, February 25, 2013

Douglas A-26 Invader -- Introduction

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I am not quite sure when I was first introduced to the Douglas A-26 Invader, so to speak. It may have been through reading Linc Alexander...
Saturday, February 23, 2013

What is coming up -- About the Douglas A-26 Invader

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direct link to video direct link to video . I think that you are seeing the A-26 serial # 41-39359 in this video. If I am correct ...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

News about tankers in 2013

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I don't know about you, but I've been waiting for word on the status of the contracts for the P-2V tankers, the DC-10 tankers, and t...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013

SEATs: view from cockpit

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direct link to video I was spending some time yesterday going through videos of airtankers in action when I came across this...
Friday, February 15, 2013

Power of Nature: Wildfires

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In 1997 Discovery Channel broadcast a series known as Raging Planet focusing on the power of nature. Season two was broadcast in 2008, se...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Senator Mark Udall meets with Fire Chiefs

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direct link to video I found this video report from CBS in Denver Colorado interesting and I hope you do as well. 
Monday, February 11, 2013

Avialsa Air Tractor's: 802 and Fireboss

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direct link to video on youtube , one of a series of airtanker videos recently made available on the new Associated Aerial Firefighters yo...
Friday, February 08, 2013

Iron 44 Crash - Sikorsky S-61N (August 5, 2008)

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direct link to video On August 5, 2008 a Carson Helicopters Sikorsky S-61N then under contract with the U.S. Forest Service crashe...
Wednesday, February 06, 2013

New Associated Aerial Firefighters website

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The Associated Aerial Firefighters (AAF) has recently redesigned their website. You might want to check it out. They have a nice set of n...
Monday, February 04, 2013

Pine Island Cranberry Bog (NJ) in the winter

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Some of you know that I spent a day last October with my friends from Downstown Aero in Chatsworth NJ watching them load their AgCats and...
Saturday, February 02, 2013

RIP Allan MacNutt

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Dear Allan, A good friend of yours sent me a copy of your book, Altimeter Rising , a while back. I read it over the summer. When ...
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Air Tankers in Santa Barbara (1987)

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I got involved with doing some background reading on ice formation in rivers so that I can be in a better position to make informed ice obse...
Monday, January 28, 2013

Memories of the NJ Shore

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I was not intending to write an article on life after Super Storm in NJ, and the ongoing recovery. But I went to the online edition of the S...
Friday, January 25, 2013

On a lighter note -- cat up a pole

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I got wind of this story of a Colorado fire department rescuing a cat who had been perched atop a utility pole for three days from Mike Ar...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Reflections on Firecats

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We have never met, that doesn't really matter. I have one of your patches on a denim jacket I wear in the warmer weather and I ha...
Monday, January 21, 2013

DeHavilland Grumman CP-121 Tracker

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I finish up what turned out to be a series of four articles on Conair's Firecats and their military history with this short piece about ...
Friday, January 18, 2013

Grumman Tracker

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Writing about the Conair's Firecats recently got me thinking about their military use. If I'm not mistaken, prior to their service ...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Conair Firecat T-564 to Canadian Museum of Flight

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direct link to video I'd like to thank a good friend who sent me a link to this video of the final flight of Firecat T-564 fro...
Monday, January 14, 2013

Conair Firecats in action

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Conair in Abbotsford British Columbia (BC), Canada retired their last two Firecats in August 2012, I'll be writing about that in my ...