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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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N172AC —

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This unusual bird came to town in 2011, so I shot it with my Nikon D700.

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Champdriver
It's a Sikorsky S-64F Skycrane, good photo of it too.
Rusty Kambata
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.
Lee Sulecki
I got a couple of showers from this one in N Texas that year. They are impressive to watch.
vonerot8
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
26-07-2025 S64Gazipaşa ()Gazipaşa () 11:26AM +03 01:27PM +03 (?) 2:01
26-07-2025 S64Cerca de GazipasaGazipaşa () First seen 08:59AM +03 Last seen 10:21AM +03 1:21
26-07-2025 S64Cerca de AntalyaCerca de Gazipasa First seen 08:24AM +03 Last seen 08:50AM +03 0:26
25-07-2025 S64Cerca de GazipasaCerca de Antalya First seen 07:41PM +03 Last seen 08:05PM +03 0:23
25-07-2025 S64Gazipaşa ()Gazipaşa () 04:55PM +03 06:51PM +03 (?) 1:56
25-07-2025 S64Cerca de AntalyaCerca de Gazipasa First seen 01:15PM +03 Last seen 02:57PM +03 1:42
25-07-2025 S64Cerca de IspartaCerca de Antalya First seen 11:22AM +03 Last seen 12:12PM +03 0:50
23-07-2025 S64Anadolu ()Cerca de Anadolu, Eskisehir 08:08AM +03 Last seen 08:14AM +03 0:06
22-07-2025 S64Cerca de Anadolu, EskisehirAnadolu () First seen 08:16PM +03 Last seen 08:23PM +03 0:06
22-07-2025 S64İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l ()Cerca de Uşak 01:43PM +03 Last seen 02:24PM +03 0:41
22-07-2025 S64İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l ()İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l () 01:30PM +03 resultado desconocido (?) n/a
22-07-2025 S64İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l ()İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l () 07:49AM +03 07:51AM +03 0:01
21-07-2025 S64İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l ()İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l () 03:25PM +03 03:25PM +03 (?) 0:00
21-07-2025 S64İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l ()İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l () 01:30PM +03 01:30PM +03 0:00
21-07-2025 S64Cerca de Aydın, Turkeyİzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l () 12:14PM +03 12:58PM +03 0:43
17-07-2025 S64İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l ()Cerca de İzmir 10:39AM +03 Last seen 10:54AM +03 0:14
17-07-2025 S64İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l ()İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l () 10:29AM +03 10:31AM +03 0:01
16-07-2025 S64İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l ()İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l () 07:43AM +03 07:43AM +03 0:00
15-07-2025 S64İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l ()İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l () 10:14PM +03 10:20PM +03 0:06
15-07-2025 S64Manisa/Akhisar ()İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l () 07:11PM +03 08:21PM +03 1:09
15-07-2025 S64Manisa/Akhisar ()Manisa/Akhisar () 04:31PM +03 06:30PM +03 (?) 1:59
15-07-2025 S64İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l ()Manisa/Akhisar () 01:40PM +03 03:26PM +03 1:46
15-07-2025 S64İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l ()İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l () 01:32PM +03 01:33PM +03 0:00
15-07-2025 S64İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l ()İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l () 07:09AM +03 07:10AM +03 0:00
13-07-2025 S64Cerca de Bodrumİzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l () 06:24PM +03 08:10PM +03 1:45
12-07-2025 S64Cerca de BodrumCerca de Bodrum First seen 05:01PM +03 Last seen 05:02PM +03 0:00
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