Airborne Firefighting

[Hoser]

Thats time of the year again. Tested out the systems out this morning, start flying next week. Here is what dumping 3,000 gallons out of the back of a Herk in 4 seconds looks like. This is about .75 seconds into the drop.


Here is an older pic of #1 dropping on a flare up on the Hayman burn in 2002.


Lastly Civilian Air tanker #16 starting a drop on a ridgeline in Southern California a few years ago. Just a little lower than he really needed to be...

[PsychoI3oy]

Those are awesome pictures.

So, is the pink/red stuff still Boraid or do I remember right and they changed it to something else a while back?

[roman gnome]

3rd pic is classic,very nice!

[VNgunfighter]

Nice pics Tom, reminds me of the old days-Need to get mine scanned someday-Jimmy

[CSM]

Who do you work for, or who owns those planes and where? I know H&P are out of the game and they sold off all their parts last year. I actually got my multi from a fire bomer pilot.

Thanks for the pics! That first one is cool.

[7idl]

I loves me some big planes flying low!

[WillysWagon]

Are those the 302nd MAFFS planes?

Cool pics....

[eerw]

302nd training for the summer season today in NM.

[SkyTech]

That third pic should win some award.

:cool:

[CSM]

That third pic should win some award.

:cool:

I file that under the "bold pilots" category.