Guest Bun E. Carlos Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 was over Lansing, ILL this afternoon.......all orange........like a WASP it was.......scared me :) http://svsm.org/gallery/s64_skycrane/DSC09300 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GHonanie Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 I think Jerry Wells did a scaled down version. Have yet to see the fullsize version. No forest fires close by yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulBradley Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 We get them here quite a bit during The Season - I'll scan in a photo I took some years ago of one filling up a couple of hundred yards form where we used to live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GHonanie Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 All I have is the orion and the neptune, plus a AZ dept of safety Helo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenBierce Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 For many years Revell had a 1/72 Skycrane in their catalog. Dunno if it's been reissued in recent memory...last issue I remember was in the middle Eighties. I don't think anybody else has one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weedeater Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 - Tamiya released one in 1/100 scale in the mid 70's. I believe it was re-issued as recently as last year. Hobby Lobby's carried the line of Tam 1/100, but here locally they look like they as simply exhausting their supply. - Aurora also had a 1/72-ish issue. - Revell of Germany re-issued the 1/72 kit in 2001 with THESE markings on the sister ship, (a/c N164AC). No sign of additional parts to replicate the vacuum cleaner lookin hose thingie that hangs down from the underside or any other fire fighting gear. The decals are pretty cool and represent these markings well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreamsof51 Posted April 24, 2009 Report Share Posted April 24, 2009 Saw a lot of skycranes last fire season here in southern California. Watching fire bombing aircraft is part of growing up here. Friend of mine was inspecting the construction of the new fire dept air operations center last year. The County and City of LA base aircraft and helos there. One of the County blackhawk pilots lives a few houses from me so we get imprompto airshows at least once a week. My favorite aerial firefighters are the Canadair CL 214 "super scoopers," They always fly in pairs and spent a lot of time over my house last year working fires nearby. Always interesting to watch in spite of the unfortunate reason for them being there. Thanks for the post Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GHonanie Posted April 24, 2009 Report Share Posted April 24, 2009 A little off the subject, Flagstaff's AZ Airport gets a lot of touch and goes from Marines and USAF aircraft. Then in late spring early summer a batch of forest service firebombers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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