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| Coulson Water Bomber in Australia - Jarrod Swanwick |
Coulson is based in British Columbia, Canada. A C-130 Hercules has a range of about 2,000 miles. Australia is about 10,000 miles away, all over water, so I was wondering what route they took to get there. I mean there is more than one way to skin a cat (where did that expression come from anyway?), see this post and this video. I suppose they could have carried extra fuel in the cargo bay, but I don't know if they would have been able to carry enough to fly non-stop the whole way.
Besides having a zillion aircraft photos, FlightAware also has flight logs for every aircraft in existence, so I thought I'd check. That log shows that this aircraft has been in Chile for at least the last month. So Coulson gets around.
This photo was also in this weeks batch from FlightAware. Also from Australia by the same photographer. The Skycrane has appeared here a couple of times.
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| Erickson Skycrane - Jarrod Swanwick |
This photo was also in this weeks batch from FlightAware. Also from Australia by the same photographer. The Skycrane has appeared here a couple of times.
Wikipedia has a page about the Skycrane and the CH-54 Tarhe, the military version.
FlightAware does not track private planes, afaik.
ReplyDeleteThey do track some. For instance: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N5830C I suspect it depends on whether they carry a transponder or not.
ReplyDeleteThat's what we should be building instead of more zillion dollar fighter jets.
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