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Old September 7th 03, 04:38 PM
Stew Hicks
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Kelowna residents had quite an demonstration of fire bomber pilot skills.
Here are some good pics. of the Mars Martin and Canadair bombers at work

on
the pick-up end.

I'll try again. Go to "castanet.net", Photo gallery and newest pictures.


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Old September 7th 03, 05:29 PM
Morgans
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"Ed Wischmeyer" wrote in message
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Kelowna residents had quite an demonstration of fire bomber pilot

skills.
Here are some good pics. of the Mars Martin and Canadair bombers at

work
on
the pick-up end.

I'll try again. Go to "castanet.net", Photo gallery and newest

pictures.

http://www.castanet.net/firepics/New...res/index.html

Some of these are pretty interesting!

Ed Wischmeyer


A friend of mine was instrumental in lobbying the NC legislature to get a
CL-215 water bomber, and had a video tape of them doing practice pickups and
drops. Very impressive. They can pick up 1200 gallons of water in
something like 8 seconds. The scoop is only something like 4" x 8". They
pick up at 100 knots.

The pictures on the site are of (I think the number is) 415's, which are
215's with turboprops, bigger water tanks, and a bit of tail feather added,
plus a few other changes.

The amazing thing is that those planes, as big as they are, are pure cable
controlled, (Boost Tabs) except for flaps. The fly like fighters, banking in
and out of water pickup sites.
--
Jim in NC


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Old September 8th 03, 11:55 PM
Darrel Toepfer
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"Ed Wischmeyer" wrote...

The amazing thing is that those planes, as big as they are, are pure

cable
controlled, (Boost Tabs) except for flaps. The fly like fighters,

banking in
and out of water pickup sites.


IIRC, DC-9s and MD-80s are all cable, except for hydraulics to the
rudder. One joke is that the "DC" stands for "direct cable." Thought the
tabs were called servo tabs, not boost tabs...


Apparently the Martin Mars (the 4 engine red and white jobbies) are float
only and not amphib...

The history of them is available he
http://www.martinmars.com
http://www.vectorsite.net/avmars.html
http://www.jimmyhoward.com/Martin-Mars-history.shtml


 




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