A few pics from the fire line.

Henning

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A few pics I took the other day
 

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Henning. I saw that on the news! Are you the only one flying the Pawnee or is that an Ag Truck? If so, I saw you flying.
 
Henning said:
A few pics I took the other day
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In that 4th picture, is that a helicopter on its side? Looks like it's on fire, too. Or am I just seeing that wrong?
 
Troy Whistman said:
In that 4th picture, is that a helicopter on its side? Looks like it's on fire, too. Or am I just seeing that wrong?
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Nope, you're eyes are good, crash on take off, that was about 1/2 a second after the big WHONK. The fire was put out about 20 seconds later and the one pilot aboard was pulled out OK.
 
Anthony said:
Henning. I saw that on the news! Are you the only one flying the Pawnee or is that an Ag Truck? If so, I saw you flying.
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Well, that's a M-18 Dromadier in the pics (about 4 times the size and HP of a Pawnee and/or Ag Truck). I doubt you saw me flying. Interesting that you're getting news footage of fires in Australia. Musta been a slow news day.
 
Henning said:
Well, that's a M-18 Dromadier in the pics (about 4 times the size and HP of a Pawnee and/or Ag Truck). I doubt you saw me flying. Interesting that you're getting news footage of fires in Australia. Musta been a slow news day.
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Yeah that kind of surpirsed me too.

Wow, lots of HP. What engine is in there? P&W?
 
Anthony said:
Yeah that kind of surpirsed me too.

Wow, lots of HP. What engine is in there? P&W?
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Lets see if I can get the spelling right, I think it's Pietzetel. It's a Polish engine, heck, it's a Polish Plane. I believe it's the same engine as in the AN-2. I'm told it's built off the 1820, but I don't know, I havent been into one. Cheap HP, no less reliable than any other recip of the same HP, and you can buy 10 of them for the price of 1 turbine, and the 10 will out last the one. It's one of two planes you can make decent money with doing Boll Weevil as well, the Ag Husky is the other.
 
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