Well the bushfire season is underway here in oz, 9 confirmed dead in South Australia in the last 24 hours. Looking a bit grim in Victoria too. With 40 degree C (105 F) plus temps predicted over the next week I'm sure it will be our turn soon.
At least we have the Erickson sky cranes to water bomb with 9 tonnes per drop. Thanks Canada!
“You’ll find, that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that’s hardly worth the effort.”
wow isnt that nice we sell the australians those high tech water boming helicopters but we keep these old a-- sea kings that literally fall out of the sky
We lease them for the summer, about $10K per hour to operate. Worth every cent! They dismantle them, fly them over in a cargo plane and reassemble. I think it costs about $5M per helcopter a season. We normally have about 3.
“You’ll find, that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that’s hardly worth the effort.”