look at, especially in the heat of the summer when the Martin Mars Waterbomber comes to pick up a load of Cowichan Lake.
in 1959.
(You can tell because the tail is white on the Philippine Mars and red on the Hawaii Mars.) It to was also built in
1946 and converted in 1959 to a waterbomber and now retired in 2012 at 66yrs old.
the house.I ran out side to find out what the noise was. When I saw this huge waterbomber coming back
over the lake I ran back in to get my camera. On it's next pass over I swear it looked and sounded like it was
no more that 50 feet above the house doing it's turn to line up with the lake. Those four radial motors don't
have mufflers it seams. I am sure it was a lot higher that 50 feet to.
the island. I was covering one event where they did a small precision drop by a festival Beer Garden just
soaking some jokers that were close by in the forest, probably smoking something illegal.
on shore for maintenance . The Philippine Mars is now beached on the property of
Coulson Flying Tankers Inc, it flew until it was retired earlier this year.
It will soon become a static display at the National Naval Aviation Museum.
clear of other boat traffic to almost land on the lake and scoop up it's 27,276 Ltr (7200 gal) of water. It seems
that right in front of our house is a good place, works for me. When they are fighting a fire they can load and
dump in about 15 minuets, depending how far away the fire is. Dropping that much water it usually only takes
a few dumps to put out the smaller fires before they get out of hand.
Especially flying over top of you.