Have you seen the Mars in action? I watched them fight a fire on one of our Gulf Islands two
summers ago, and they sure didn't seem slow and heavy. It seemed like as soon as one had
made a drop, the other was right behind it. With 4x the volume of water as the smaller plane,
they don't need to be quite as fast...

On 27 Oct 2007 at 9:15, Benny boy <huotb@VIDEOTRON.CA> wrote:

> The Mars is an old (but venerable) aircraft, it's slow and heavy, a
> Bombardier 415 is way more agile and as the time to go 2 time on the scene
> wile the Mars one.
>
> Cheers, Ben
>
>
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:05:48 -0700, Shawn Wright <vwdiesels@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> >Too bad we have only two of these babies left up here...
> >
> >http://www.martinmars.com/
> >
> >I've seen them in action many times (including a fire less than a km from
> our house a few
> >years ago), and they are quite amazing. I imagine the more modern
> Bombardier would also
> >be very impressive, even if only half the size...
> >
> >On 25 Oct 2007 at 10:22, Benny boy <huotb@VIDEOTRON.CA> wrote:
> >
> >> It's time for the US the invest in a Canadian product:
> >>
> http://www.bombardier.com/index.jsp?id=3_0&lang=en&file=/en/3_0/3_3/3_3_0.html
> >> >> When you see those up close, you understand! Look at a north american map,
> >> look at Quebec, France goes 8 time into it! All we have is forest. >> >> I
> had a fiend who was a CL-215 (older version) pilot, men, you can only have >>
> respect for those crazy guys. >> >> It's not the first time i see Califonia in
> fire, very sad indeed. >> >> Ben > > >Shawn Wright
> >http://members.shaw.ca/vwdiesels >'88 Westy 1.6TD 5 speed >'85 Jetta Diesel
> 1.6NA

Shawn Wright
http://members.shaw.ca/vwdiesels
'88 Westy 1.6TD 5 speed
'85 Jetta Diesel 1.6NA