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New Air Force cargo planes fly straight into mothballs
The Pentagon is sending $50 million cargo planes straight from the assembly line to mothballs because it has no use for them, yet it still hasn’t stopped ordering the aircraft, according to a report. (www.foxnews.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Put some bladders/tanks in them and send them to the US Forest Service.
Now there's an idea!
works for me!
They have tried it three are now in use with the forest service, but are of limited use as they can not hold enouth retadent.
Spell check is free.
There is a big difference between a misspelling and a typo, it only took me .5 seconds to notice it was a typo and not a misspelling, learn the difference and don't be a douche
I was wondering what their capacity would be. Load limit seems to be about 25K lbs. Doesn't the Forest Service have a floor limit of 3,000 gal or so?
Attached is a link to Calif CalFire list of aerial tankers- the aged S-2 which upon which CalFire depends is about 1200 gal. The C-27J looks like it could augment, if not replace them. (I don't know the hourly operational cost of the S-2)
http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/AviationGuide_FINAL_webbooklet.pdf
Attached is a link to Calif CalFire list of aerial tankers- the aged S-2 which upon which CalFire depends is about 1200 gal. The C-27J looks like it could augment, if not replace them. (I don't know the hourly operational cost of the S-2)
http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/AviationGuide_FINAL_webbooklet.pdf
Brand-new planes of any capacity that can be counted on to be there in an emergency are preferable to depending upon an aged fleet of insufficient aircraft that don't always make it the fire when dispatched.
When tha squad of elite firefighters were burned alive, the request for 6 tankers was denied. The single tanker that was dispatched had to return to base because of
When tha squad of elite firefighters were burned alive, the request for 6 tankers was denied. The single tanker that was dispatched had to return to base because of
a malfunction.
Even new planes break... We had one AOG because of a slipped seal that had migrated... Only had 33 cycles from the factory. At 15 cycles it had a seat recline cylinder bad and had to defer a seat...