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Mon Dec 06, 2010 10:29 am

Aircraft of the Israel firefighting effort

Today's Big Picture from Boston.com is full of photos of firefighting aircraft in action over the forest fire in Haifa, Israel... one of which looks mighty familiar... The CL215 from Ice Pilots that the guys delivered to Turkey??

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/12/wildfire_in_israel.html

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Mon Dec 06, 2010 11:40 am

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The twin engine bomber looks like one from Ice Pilot's tv show.
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Mon Dec 06, 2010 12:54 pm

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After 5 years in Turkey I can verify that "Turk" on the side of the airplane means it is in fact from Turkey.
Did you see the video's of the Evergreen 747 dumping retardant on the fire? That was pretty impressive.
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Mon Dec 06, 2010 1:23 pm

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Mon Dec 06, 2010 1:49 pm

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porterjet wrote:After 5 years in Turkey I can verify that "Turk" on the side of the airplane means it is in fact from Turkey.
Did you see the video's of the Evergreen 747 dumping retardant on the fire? That was pretty impressive.
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Mon Dec 06, 2010 6:05 pm

Re: Aircraft of the Israel firefighting effort

Most of the Canadair Cl-215/415 airplanes built live and work in Europe now. The 747 drop was impressive. Probably the only tanker around (besides the Evergreen DC 10 tanker) that could travel from the US to Isreal. I'll bet that cost a pretty penney, though.

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Mon Dec 06, 2010 6:33 pm

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Some really good pics at the end of this video, impressive effort to say the least!

Video starts at 3:27
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... A_0#t=208s
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Wed Dec 08, 2010 3:05 am

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Impressive video of Tanker 979. This would take about 25 SEAT drops!
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