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Old October 27th 07, 08:36 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
george
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Default the ideal fire/water bomber?

On Oct 28, 6:21 am, Richard Riley wrote:
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:19:36 +0200, "oilsardine"
wrote:

A380 ;-))


The hangar for my day job is close by the DC-10 bomber. It hauls a
huge load of retardant, and can make about 1 drop an hour.

OTOH, it limped back to the airport a few months ago after it hit some
trees with a wingtip. Impressive that it was able to survive the hit,
not so impressive that it hit to begin with.


That's the one I saw on TV.
A really impressive water dump..
But at the time I thought my eyes were deceiving me