6/18/2002: Firefighting C-130 breaks up

MaggieL · 06-18-2002, 04:36 PM

Hmmph. *That* was special.

Anyway, this work has these guys constantly pulling high-G maneuvers. The C-130 has a *lot* of engine power, and can be made to do some amazing things. This one kinda looks like a wing spar failure, just from being pulled-up sharply one too many times. I'm sure the turbulance doesn't help, and I doubt that the maneuvering speed limitations are really carefully observed when fighting forest fires. These guys are kind of a spritual mix of ambulance drivers and ag pilots.

06-18-2002, 04:36 PM	#3
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	Hmmph. That was special. Anyway, this work has these guys constantly pulling high-G maneuvers. The C-130 has a lot of engine power, and can be made to do some amazing things. This one kinda looks like a wing spar failure, just from being pulled-up sharply one too many times. I'm sure the turbulance doesn't help, and I doubt that the maneuvering speed limitations are really carefully observed when fighting forest fires. These guys are kind of a spritual mix of ambulance drivers and ag pilots. __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..."

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