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| New (recolor) Sky Buster air tanker; Blaze Buster SB87 (the Bombardier/Canadair CL-415 inspired Matchbox generic) | |
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| b2young | Sep 17 2014, 11:34 AM Post #1 |
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After a couple days not posting images, and trying to find another web photo-hosting site as easy and convenient as Photobucket to resolve an issue I'm having with PB, I've determined PB is the best option even though it has been giving me fits....seemingly related to Adobe Flash and it's unstable relationship with Apple computing devices. So, here's the latest(?) recolor of the Sky Buster Blaze Buster known as SB87: ![]() ![]() It has that 'winged-globe' tampo which makes it look more like a commercial cargo plane...but then, if you read the back of all the cards in the latest release, it's all about cargo. No mention of firefighting. ![]() ![]() Comparing it to a scale model (from New Ray) of a Canadair CL-415 (aka Grumman Firecat and Bombardier 415) shows it to be Matchbox's near true-to-life but just different enough to not require a license version of the CL-415. (Oh, and the French also call these things "Pelicans" for how they skim open water--the Mediterranean or lakes, for instance--and collect vast quantities of water in their belly tank (rather than beaks)) ![]() After doing the "Pelican" thing, the ship lifts off and heads back to the fireline.... ![]() aided and abetted by it's New Ray cousin ![]() The New Ray (and some other brands) models are based on actual working air tankers....Tanker 39 is seen in action in the French photo book on forest fire fighting, behind the scale model ![]() |
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| Hoseman | Sep 18 2014, 02:09 PM Post #2 |
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Love the write up Blair, your passion isn't wildland firefighting by any chance, is it? : ) |
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| Douglas | Sep 18 2014, 06:23 PM Post #3 |
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Enjoyed the pics and info Blair, now the question is, what kind of commercial cargo would an air-tanker be carrying?
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| Hoseman | Sep 18 2014, 06:58 PM Post #4 |
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Here's another version of the Canada-Air tanker -![]()
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| b2young | Sep 19 2014, 01:31 PM Post #5 |
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That would be the $64,000 question, wouldn't it? Little-known, but coming more and more to the USA, is the fact that Bombardier (based in Canada) manufactures many "regional" airliners formerly made by Boeing and DeHaviland and others, including DeHaviland Dash-8 passenger jets (well, turboprops). In parts of southern Europe, Dash-8 airliners carry passengers as originally designed normally, but during "fire season" some have been converted to firefighting air tankers. So they carry human 'cargo' as usual at certain times of year, and other times are temporarily re-purposed to carry a different 'cargo'....fire retardant. I have seen at least one photo from a US fire this summer with a Dash-8 dropping retardant on a fire in the pacific northwest. You can see the passenger windows along the sides of the aircraft (sans passengers, of course, though that would be a very cool way to get from point A to point B....). I can just hear the pilot coming on the intercom to the cabin...."folks, we've been asked to make a short diversion to drop a load of retardant on a fire near our flight path; I'm afraid we'll be a little late to our destination." http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&docid=Aa__XfX4qjagPM&tbnid=H0BmnWZVSTFXuM:&ved=0CAcQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.airliners.net%2Fphoto%2FFrance---Securite%2FDe-Havilland-Canada%2F1218428%2F&ei=N3ccVPXMCs3ligKdhoHgBg&bvm=bv.75775273,d.cGU&psig=AFQjCNG34T3e68_p3dWN-MjdF870y6d5Eg&ust=1411238029107486 Not to mention (wait, I'm mentioning it now...) the DC-10 and Boeing 747s et al increasingly being used as air tankers in the US. Edited by b2young, Sep 19 2014, 01:57 PM.
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| b2young | Sep 19 2014, 01:45 PM Post #6 |
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Passion? We don't need no stinkin' passion.....(er, blatantly paraphrasing, poorly, the Treasure of the Sierra Madre....) I happened to mis-speak in my "authoritative" sounding article....the Canadair air tankers are NOT called "Grumman Firecats"....that term refers to the S2s common to CDF and many other wildland agencies, including Securite Civile in Europe. I knew that....but for some reason when I saw it in a google search included in an article about the Canadair line, I included it absent-mindedly in my discussion. My bad. |
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