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06-29-2008, 07:56 PM | # 1 Quick Link (permalink) | |||||||||||||
| Martin Mars landed at Lake Shasta The Martin Mars splashed down on Lake Shasta today. The flying boat's support team is at Bridge Bay..Based out of Vancouver Island, Canada, the monstrous water bomber capable of dousing three to four acres with 7,200 gallons of water – has been set to join to fight against the north state's wildfires since Thursday, but has been delayed by mechanical problems. That is one big water tanker....It's really smokey up here again today too.  | |||||||||||||
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06-29-2008, 07:59 PM | # 2 Quick Link (permalink) | |||||||||||||
| Re: Martin Mars landed at Lake Shasta Great news, TY JP! It seems that our smoked-filled state is pretty evident in that picture too!  | |||||||||||||
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06-29-2008, 08:04 PM | # 3 Quick Link (permalink) | |||||||||||||
| Re: Martin Mars landed at Lake Shasta JP - I saw this bad boy when it was stationed at Lake Oroville the last time we had such a bad fire season (was that 2001-2?). The plane is an absolute monster. Here's a couple of pics I took (behold the awesome quality of a 2 megapixel digital camera):   | |||||||||||||
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06-29-2008, 08:34 PM | # 4 Quick Link (permalink) | |||||||||||||
| Re: Martin Mars landed at Lake Shasta Wow....Great pictures Black6...She is a monster for sure..First time i have seen one too.. I wish this smoke hurry up and leave...It's very bad to breath ...I'm on the softball team and i have a hard time breathing this dirty air too.The bad part is these tankers can't take off if they can't see their drop zone... Some of these fires up here there just letting them burn i heard too...  JP | |||||||||||||
| George Preddy was......Just the greatest fighter pilot who ever squinted through a gunsight. He was a complete fighter pilot.......Colonel John C. Meyer Deputy Commander of the 352nd. | ||||||||||||||
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06-29-2008, 08:37 PM | # 5 Quick Link (permalink) | |||||||||||||
| Re: Martin Mars landed at Lake Shasta Now thats a big flying boat. Thanks for posting the pictures. | |||||||||||||
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06-30-2008, 07:48 PM | # 6 Quick Link (permalink) | |||||||||||||
| Re: Martin Mars landed at Lake Shasta My father grew up there and we still have family in town. I can still remember watching & listening to fully loaded B-17 Fire Bombers Flying Over head on their way to fight forest fires in the 80’s. | |||||||||||||
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06-30-2008, 09:12 PM | # 7 Quick Link (permalink) | |||||||||||||
|  Re: Martin Mars landed at Lake Shasta Wow! That is an awesome aircraft!!! Great pictures to all who posted. Must be quite a sight to see that flying boat take to the air. | |||||||||||||
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07-01-2008, 01:09 AM | # 8 Quick Link (permalink) | |||||||||||||
| Re: Martin Mars landed at Lake Shasta My cousins are going to go out to see it take off they said they will take some video while they are out there. Here is a great pic of the Mars doing what it does best. | |||||||||||||
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07-01-2008, 02:51 AM | # 9 Quick Link (permalink) | ||||||||||||||
| Re: Martin Mars landed at Lake Shasta
Re-iterating ZS's post = GREAT pictures & thanks for posting. Makes a change seeing some pix taken by regular guys !!!!!!!!!! Seen loads of pix of these in the "Glossys" & even an 1/2 hr T.V. documentary of 'em. I'm way jealous of you guys who've seen 'em for real !!!!!!!!!! Also, thanks rdenham for the lovely B.17 pic'. | ||||||||||||||
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07-01-2008, 03:13 AM | # 10 Quick Link (permalink) | |||||||||||||
| Re: Martin Mars landed at Lake Shasta Wow. Now THAT is one heck of a firefightin' airplane. I can see why they named 'em "Mars". | |||||||||||||
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