Any one watching the DC10 tanker making it?s drops on the Malibu Fire today on the news? Channel 11 had some good coverage.
WOW! I didn't even know there was a fire ??? I can see a bit of the smoke from my house.
Fire fighting DC-10 at Miramar 2006, this is my favorite passenger/tanker aircraft type. Amazing to see something so large doing fire drops. 8)
That would make a kick ass ride wouldn't it!? Would be interesting to call them up and see if they could slip you into a jump seat somewhere for promo shots. ;D
Channel 7 had it in HD. It was awesome.
For my Master's Degree, I am writing a DC-10 Engineering Case Study.
We were lucky to have 10 Tanker at Miramar a few years ago.
They are heading toward modifying a 2nd airframe.
Kevin
aero-engineer
Channel 7 HD? take a look at this.... This picture was taken when the first wild fires started this year in Malibu.
http://www.jetphotos.net/showphotos.php?aircraft=-2&airline=-2&country=-2&photog=-2&category=-2&year=-2&keywordrange=all&keywordlimiter=2&keywords=sedeno&sort=1&genre=1&size=-2&mainsearch=search&displaymode=1&display=15