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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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26-07-2025 | S64 | Gazipaşa (GZP / LTFG) | Gazipaşa (GZP / LTFG) | 11:26AM +03 | 01:27PM +03 (?) | 2:01 |
26-07-2025 | S64 | Cerca de Gazipasa | Gazipaşa (GZP / LTFG) | First seen 08:59AM +03 | Last seen 10:21AM +03 | 1:21 |
26-07-2025 | S64 | Cerca de Antalya | Cerca de Gazipasa | First seen 08:24AM +03 | Last seen 08:50AM +03 | 0:26 |
25-07-2025 | S64 | Cerca de Gazipasa | Cerca de Antalya | First seen 07:41PM +03 | Last seen 08:05PM +03 | 0:23 |
25-07-2025 | S64 | Gazipaşa (GZP / LTFG) | Gazipaşa (GZP / LTFG) | 04:55PM +03 | 06:51PM +03 (?) | 1:56 |
25-07-2025 | S64 | Cerca de Antalya | Cerca de Gazipasa | First seen 01:15PM +03 | Last seen 02:57PM +03 | 1:42 |
25-07-2025 | S64 | Cerca de Isparta | Cerca de Antalya | First seen 11:22AM +03 | Last seen 12:12PM +03 | 0:50 |
23-07-2025 | S64 | Anadolu (AOE / LTBY) | Cerca de Anadolu, Eskisehir | 08:08AM +03 | Last seen 08:14AM +03 | 0:06 |
22-07-2025 | S64 | Cerca de Anadolu, Eskisehir | Anadolu (AOE / LTBY) | First seen 08:16PM +03 | Last seen 08:23PM +03 | 0:06 |
22-07-2025 | S64 | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | Cerca de Uşak | 01:43PM +03 | Last seen 02:24PM +03 | 0:41 |
22-07-2025 | S64 | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | 01:30PM +03 | resultado desconocido (?) | n/a |
22-07-2025 | S64 | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | 07:49AM +03 | 07:51AM +03 | 0:01 |
21-07-2025 | S64 | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | 03:25PM +03 | 03:25PM +03 (?) | 0:00 |
21-07-2025 | S64 | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | 01:30PM +03 | 01:30PM +03 | 0:00 |
21-07-2025 | S64 | Cerca de Aydın, Turkey | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | 12:14PM +03 | 12:58PM +03 | 0:43 |
17-07-2025 | S64 | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | Cerca de İzmir | 10:39AM +03 | Last seen 10:54AM +03 | 0:14 |
17-07-2025 | S64 | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | 10:29AM +03 | 10:31AM +03 | 0:01 |
16-07-2025 | S64 | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | 07:43AM +03 | 07:43AM +03 | 0:00 |
15-07-2025 | S64 | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | 10:14PM +03 | 10:20PM +03 | 0:06 |
15-07-2025 | S64 | Manisa/Akhisar (LTBT) | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | 07:11PM +03 | 08:21PM +03 | 1:09 |
15-07-2025 | S64 | Manisa/Akhisar (LTBT) | Manisa/Akhisar (LTBT) | 04:31PM +03 | 06:30PM +03 (?) | 1:59 |
15-07-2025 | S64 | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | Manisa/Akhisar (LTBT) | 01:40PM +03 | 03:26PM +03 | 1:46 |
15-07-2025 | S64 | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | 01:32PM +03 | 01:33PM +03 | 0:00 |
15-07-2025 | S64 | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | 07:09AM +03 | 07:10AM +03 | 0:00 |
13-07-2025 | S64 | Cerca de Bodrum | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | 06:24PM +03 | 08:10PM +03 | 1:45 |
12-07-2025 | S64 | Cerca de Bodrum | Cerca de Bodrum | First seen 05:01PM +03 | Last seen 05:02PM +03 | 0:00 |
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