On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Graydon <[email protected]> wrote: > I was thinking more of the CL415, which is a self-reloading flying boat, > and which would have an issue with large lakes. > > Though the nice folks at Bombardier claim you don't need a straight path to > refill, and that water 2m deep will do, so river pickup *is* possible, > but I suspect even Australian pilots would find themselves feeling a bit > challenged by that.
Bah! Just bring in some good ol' Canadian bush pilots. They could load those waterbombers to capacity out of an Olympic sized swimming pool! ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
