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Ok, Let's get moving shall we?
On the status of the big Martin Mars firebomber:
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"BC's big Martin Mars water bomber will have to wait until later today (Friday) to help fight southern California's massive wildfires.
Aircraft spokesperson Jim Messer says heavy smoke between Los Angeles and San Diego has grounded the massive plane, which is now near Lake Elsinore, "We were anticipating dispatch, so we took the aircraft out to warm up and did some flight checks ourselves. At the time, we and the State thought there would probably be a dispatch while we were doing that. That dispatch got withdrawn and we've been standing by since and now the call has been made that there will not be dispatch because of smoke."
Messer says they will be ready to fly at 8:30 a.m."
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One possibility for this is that the fires have dropped to the point where they are being managed effectively with the rest of the air assets. I would imagine that the priority would go to CDF aircraft and helicopters before the turn to outside contactors like the operators of the Martin Mars.
Posted @ October 26, 2007 07:01 AM
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