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N172AC —
This unusual bird came to town in 2011, so I shot it with my Nikon D700.
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It's a Sikorsky S-64F Skycrane, good photo of it too.
A very versatile aircraft, can be fitted out for heavy duty lifting, also as in this case for aerial water suction into their onboard tank/s via the white suction hose which would hang down a few more meters during flight, so the Heli just hovers over the lake dipping the suction hose to such in the huge quantity of water in a few seconds, fly a sortie to the location of say a forest fire & return & do repetitive drops thus dowsing the fire. The other option is a hanging water bucket below which it dunks & fils up at lakes or rivers & air drops it over the fire zone. The whole idea being to save time for landing & take off.
I got a couple of showers from this one in N Texas that year. They are impressive to watch.
Nice photo of a familiar Erikson Air Crane rotary bird we have come over to us in Australia every summer for bush fire fighting use. They do a fantastic job, and are all uniquely named too. :)
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Fecha | Aeronave | Origen | Destino | Salida | Llegada | Duración |
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19-05-2024 | S64 | Erickson Air-Crane Whetstone (2OG2) | Erickson Air-Crane Whetstone (2OG2) | 09:15AM PDT | 09:54AM PDT | 0:39 |
19-05-2024 | S64 | Erickson Air-Crane Whetstone (2OG2) | Erickson Air-Crane Whetstone (2OG2) | 09:12AM PDT | 09:13AM PDT | 0:01 |
19-05-2024 | S64 | Erickson Air-Crane Whetstone (2OG2) | Erickson Air-Crane Whetstone (2OG2) | 09:08AM PDT | 09:09AM PDT | 0:01 |
08-05-2024 | S64 | Cerca de Medford, OR | Erickson Air-Crane Whetstone (2OG2) | 12:58PM PDT | 01:17PM PDT | 0:19 |
08-05-2024 | S64 | Erickson Air-Crane Whetstone (2OG2) | Cerca de Medford, OR | 12:27PM PDT | Last seen 12:44PM PDT | 0:16 |
08-05-2024 | S64 | Rogue Valley Intl (KMFR) | Erickson Air-Crane Whetstone (2OG2) | 11:27AM PDT | 11:48AM PDT | 0:20 |
08-05-2024 | S64 | Rogue Valley Intl (KMFR) | Rogue Valley Intl (KMFR) | 11:18AM PDT | 11:25AM PDT | 0:07 |
08-05-2024 | S64 | Erickson Air-Crane Whetstone (2OG2) | Rogue Valley Intl (KMFR) | 11:11AM PDT | 11:16AM PDT | 0:05 |
08-05-2024 | S64 | Erickson Air-Crane Whetstone (2OG2) | Erickson Air-Crane Whetstone (2OG2) | 10:41AM PDT | 10:42AM PDT | 0:00 |
08-05-2024 | S64 | Erickson Air-Crane Whetstone (2OG2) | Erickson Air-Crane Whetstone (2OG2) | 08:11AM PDT | 08:17AM PDT | 0:06 |
07-05-2024 | S64 | Cerca de Medford, OR | Erickson Air-Crane Whetstone (2OG2) | 05:39PM PDT | 05:53PM PDT | 0:14 |
07-05-2024 | S64 | Erickson Air-Crane Whetstone (2OG2) | Cerca de Medford, OR | 05:12PM PDT | Last seen 05:29PM PDT | 0:16 |
07-05-2024 | S64 | Cerca de Medford, OR | Erickson Air-Crane Whetstone (2OG2) | 04:25PM PDT | 04:41PM PDT | 0:15 |
07-05-2024 | S64 | Erickson Air-Crane Whetstone (2OG2) | Cerca de Medford, OR | 03:51PM PDT | Last seen 04:07PM PDT | 0:15 |
07-05-2024 | S64 | Cerca de Medford, OR | Erickson Air-Crane Whetstone (2OG2) | 02:51PM PDT | 03:08PM PDT | 0:17 |
07-05-2024 | S64 | Erickson Air-Crane Whetstone (2OG2) | Cerca de Medford, OR | 02:15PM PDT | Last seen 02:31PM PDT | 0:16 |
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