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Rotary and fixed wing fire fighting aircraft at Cowra today


Guest Glenn

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There was a fire outside of Cowra yesterday and today. Fire bombing aircraft today included -

 

VH-LZH - AS.350B Fire bomber 258

 

VH-CVF - Air Tractor Fire bomber 223

 

These photos were taken at the airport. The air tractor had a turn around of approximately 10-12 mins and was able to take on 3000 litres of water and foam between 2:20 and 2:30 on average.

 

The chopper with its bambi bucket only returned to the airport to refuel. It was able to pick up water from local dams and the larger Wyangala Dam.

 

 

 

 

 

More photos later

 

 

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Would love to see Elvis. The chopper that is, unless you go to Parkes, there's hundreds of them.

 

But, let's hope we don't get fires that big to have to call in the skycrane.

 

Thanks Chainy. I desperately need a DSLR

 

Last lot of pics. First one is my current desktop background

 

 

 

 

 

 

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