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Subject: Re: [OM] Sunshine
From: ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 06:21:41 +0100
Very interesting, Chris!  It took me a few minutes to understand what crimes 
had been committed, though.

Chris

> On 5 Sep 18, at 15:15, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>     There was an item on the morning news here about a shortage of pilots for 
> the fire bomber outfits.  They showed a short video of an Aero Union C-130A 
> making a drop run.  Two decades ago I seriously pursued doing that as there 
> were a number of outfits that had acquired C-130As from the Davis-Monthan 
> depot.  But then, a fellow by the name Roy Reagan rose to the surface and 
> made a real mess of things.  
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Forest_Service_airtanker_scandal 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Forest_Service_airtanker_scandal>
> 
>     Seems that Evergreen Air (Mingus, OR) took offense to T&G Aviation using 
> theirs to haul oil rig equioment in Kuwait after the first Persian Gulf war.  
> I remember one of those returning to Chandler Memorial Airpark covered in oil 
> residue from the oilwell fires over there.  Took them two days to scrub it 
> down and remove it.
> 
>     The basis of the problem was that the C-130As were only supposed to be 
> used for fire suppression, but Aero Union had designed the refit with a 
> removable tank so that you could haul cargo in the off-season.  That was a 
> boon to the operators as it improved their profit margin, which they couldn't 
> do with the DC-6, DC-7, P-2, P-3, and other aircraft as the slurry tank was 
> fixed and took up the cargo space. 
> 
>     As you can see from the Wikipedia article, this whole episode was a real 
> mess, and overall I'm glad that it simply passed me by.  I was on a 
> first-name basis with Woody Grantham of T&G aviation, and I was going out 
> there 2-3 times a week to go over the differences in the A model.  But then 
> everything came crashing down and that opportunity ended.   

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