Re: [IRCA] Latest from Mount Wilson

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Below is a link about Evergreen Aviation's 747 that carries 20,000 gallons of 

fire retardant.  The jet fly from Oregon down to the Southern California area on Monday. 

$60 million and 7 years in development it's the 747 first paying job. 
  

http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_090109_news_evergreen_aviation_firefighting.13b63d366.html?npc 




Dennis, 

Salmon Creek, WA 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "DAVID CIV DFAS HASCALL" <DAVID.HASCALL@xxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2009 6:24:59 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Latest from Mount Wilson 

And to top it off, these planes aren't "spring chickens," either. 
Hawaii Mars (II) first flew in 1946!  I see that they converted a few 
DC-10 to tanker service.  Wonder why they did not convert many Lockheed 
Tristars (my favorite) to similar roles?  The RAF uses them as air 
refuelers. 

Dave in Indy 



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Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 17:41:24 -0700 (PDT) 
From: Bob Coomler <w6rjc@xxxxxxxxx> 
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If my memory and math are correct, that is something like 60,000 pounds 
of water exiting in a very, very short amount of time. Wow!  Hats off to 
the flight crew and everyone involved in the fire fighting. 

Bob Coomler 
Cloverdale, CA 

--- On Tue, 9/1/09, Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

> From: Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx> 
> Subject: [IRCA] Latest from Mount Wilson 
> To: "abdx" <ABDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Mailing list for the International 
Radio Club of America" <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, am@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 5:01 PM 

> If you want to see something really 
> remarkable, watch the webstream from Fox 11 in LA 
> (myfoxla.com) at about 8:15 PM EDT/5:15 PM PDT, as the 
> Martin Mars tanker plane carrying 7200 gallons of water 
> comes around to make another targeted drop on Mount Wilson. 
> Amazing stuff. 
> 
> The plane made its first drop there at about 7:15 PM EDT. 
> 
> s 
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