On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Brian Walters <supera1...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > G'day all > > We have a serious bushfire burning a few km to the east of us. It's > downwind of us so that's good - but not good for those in that > direction. > > As I write another Erikson Air Crane has just flown over the house - we > have a small lake a couple of hundred metres away and the choppers have > been using it to fill their water tanks for most of the day. > > Of course I took a few photos.....
Very cool set! You guys should buy come Canadair water bombers. They work way better than helicopters: http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/revolution-in-flight-363.jpg cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
