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Offline apophenia

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Re: Canadian GB?
« Reply #25 on: August 07, 2026, 07:24:10 AM »
Quote from: Kerick on August 06, 2026, 01:24:13 PM
Anything large enough can be made to fight forest fires. Especially C-130s with a nice red and white paint job.

Too true. Although, I rather like the newer Coulson scheme for their Hercules water bombers.

Somehow that has put me in mind of the RAAF retiring its C-27J Spartan fleet. A few years back, Leonardo was demonstrating a MAFFS II-style system for the C-27. What if some of those ex-Aussie C-27Js went to Coulsons for conversion to waterbombers (with some kind of seasonal timeshare between CA and AU)?
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Re: Canadian GB?
« Reply #26 on: August 08, 2026, 01:20:51 AM »
Quote from: apophenia on August 07, 2026, 07:24:10 AM
Somehow that has put me in mind of the RAAF retiring its C-27J Spartan fleet. A few years back, Leonardo was demonstrating a MAFFS II-style system for the C-27. What if some of those ex-Aussie C-27Js went to Coulsons for conversion to waterbombers (with some kind of seasonal timeshare between CA and AU)?

They could be useful though the challenge will be supporting them.  Having been involved in this, they are very challenging especially wrt spares.
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