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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Take-off and Landing a DC-3

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I wanted to find a nice airplane video to share with you on this New Years Eve, so I spent a couple of hours this morning looking at various...
Monday, December 29, 2014

The Shepard (Frederick Forsyth) read by Alan Maitland

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One of my favorite aviation stories is Frederick Forsyth's  The Shepard  as read by  Alan Maitland . Alan was a radio broadcaster with C...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Happy and safe holidays everyone!!

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Monday, December 22, 2014

Malheur (Heli-) Rappel Crew

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It has been awhile since I wrote about or shared videos about heli-rappeling . According to the National Wildfire Coordinating Group's G...
Friday, December 19, 2014

Chuchupate Helitack

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Continuing with sharing wildland firefighting crew videos, here is another helitack crew video, this one is from the Chuchupate H-530 Helita...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Mesa Verde Helitack (2013 season)

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Continuing with sharing videos from wildland firefighting crews, here is a nice video summarizing the Mesa Verde Helitack crew's 2013 se...
Monday, December 15, 2014

About being a Geronimo Hot Shot

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As you may have figured out, I've been sharing videos showing various wildland firefighting crews in action. Today, listen to the Geroni...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

Adious (original) T-910, gone but not forgotten (2 of 2)

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I first learned about you from a friend in May 2009 when I first started writing about aerial wildland firefighting, and I first wrote abou...
Friday, December 12, 2014

2014 Fire Season - Jackson Hotshots

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No, I haven't forgotten that I promised the write my reflections on the retirement of DC-10 T-910 . To that end, I spent some time this ...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Adios (original) T-910 (1 of 2)

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I was in San Diego California four weeks ago when I first learned that 10 Tanker retired T-910 after reading Bill Gabbert's article of N...
Monday, December 08, 2014

Mad River Hotshots

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I love watching videos shot by groundpounders. Here is a nice video shot by the Mad River Hotshots summarizing their 2014 season. Thanks Mad...
Friday, December 05, 2014

Southern California rains: update on 12/5/14

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I believe that this will be the final update that I will be making on the rains that California experienced this week (December 2 through 4)...
Wednesday, December 03, 2014

Rain in Southern California, a double edged sword?

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It started to rain in Southern California on the night of December 1st. Any rain in drought stricken Southern California is a good thing.  B...
Monday, December 01, 2014

Reflections: Drought affecting Southern CA (including Mt. Wilson)

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I was in southern California for the week of November 17th when I began my series on Mt. Wilson. As fate would have it, there were about 48 ...

Will be back later today

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I'll be back later today with my regular Monday post. I hope that everyone in the U.S. and elsewhere who celebrated Thanksgiving had a n...
Friday, November 28, 2014

A drive up the Angeles Crest Highway on September 3, 2009

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If you read Hal McAlister’s Diary of a Fire: the 2009 Station Fire Threat to Mount Wilson , he writes about the drive that he and his wife t...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

Happy Thanksgiving (in the United States)

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It is Thanksgiving here in America Today. Happy thanksgiving everyone both here and around the world. Stay safe everyone! Today I am thankfu...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Mount Wilson Observatory Today

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In my wonderings doing background reading and research on the MWO, I was fortunate to find a wonderful 1 hour episode on the MWO filmed a fe...
Monday, November 24, 2014

NOAA airplanes for snow surveys in the Buffalo

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Like many of us, I have been following last week’s lake effect snow that brought 5 to 7 feet of snow to some places near Buffalo NY. Now the...
Friday, November 21, 2014

A little history of Mount Wilson Observatory

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Just over five years ago, the Station Fire burned 160,577 acres in and near the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles, California. Over...