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Posted: 1/23/2020 12:37:27 AM EDT
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Beat by a minute 45 seconds.
https://www.ar15.com/forums/general/Large-Air-Tanker-down-in-Australia-/5-2290446/ ETA: Although your's has a link. |
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Posted: 1/23/2020 12:48:28 AM EDT
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 . Those guys can't catch a break.
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Posted: 1/23/2020 3:17:32 AM EDT
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Godspeed. Still no better fire fighter than the 130.
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Posted: 1/23/2020 5:58:41 AM EDT
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Witnesses are saying it went down in a ball of fire. I can only assume they are meaning they saw a ball of fire on impact. The tail is apparently still intact.
There is supposedly a NOTAM quarantining their Jet A tanks at Richmond AU airport. Possibly up to a week. |
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Posted: 1/23/2020 9:42:21 AM EDT
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Those “climate activist” arsonists need to be held culpable for their deaths.
Tailwinds boys. |
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Posted: 1/23/2020 7:44:41 PM EDT
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Those “climate activist” arsonists need to be held culpable for their deaths. Tailwinds boys. FIFY Tailwinds, indeed.
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Posted: 1/24/2020 5:31:21 PM EDT
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How does the C-130 refill water. Do they skim the water like some of the other do?
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Posted: 1/24/2020 6:44:15 PM EDT
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How does the C-130 refill water. Do they skim the water like some of the other do? Two primary tank systems carry retardant and disperse retardant. Coulson has a pretty neat system. The USFS owns their own systems and uses USAF aircraft and crews with their system called MAFFS. It’s a pretty complicated process to disperse retardant effectively. Four Air Force wings are assigned to the special MAFFS mission and maintain currency and training to support it in addition to the normal AMC and Reserve Component missions. Coulson does similar stuff commercially. The crews are good folks and generally very experienced former or current military 130 operators. |
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Posted: 1/25/2020 5:23:40 PM EDT
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Very sad to hear. Coulson is a bunch of good folks that are very important to the fire fighting efforts in the US. Hopefully this doesn't turn out to be the same thing that happened to Tanker 130 back a number of years ago. That was an A model, this was a converted Q model. Tanker 134 (this crash) was a fairly new airplane to the fire community after having been rebuilt a few years ago.
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