Other Types Considered for Fire Bombing

famvburg · **Joined:** Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:41 am **Posts:** 540

ISTR seeing a drawing somewhere of an S-3 fire bomber proposal.

Shay wrote:

Mark Nankivil wrote:

Aero Union did a study to convert the S-3 into a fire tanker. I would guess that 9/11 did a number on any study involving military aircraft....

Enjoy the Day! Mark

That's shame if true. The S-3 seems like it would be a candidate for being an Air Tanker. And with the remainder of the fleet retiring sometime here in 2009, some current airframes would be available.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAuBRbkb31o

Shay
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Old SAR pilot · **Posted:** Tue Dec 16, 2008 4:26 pm

I've heeered thru a grapevine or two that some other countries are lookin' at acquiring some S-3's, so the best ones would go there.

Just curious - why can't the Gov't just bite the bullet and buy some CL-415s? Or jump up there with a Beriev Be-200?? :wink:

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