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Friends, as most folks know, our Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Western Montana fire crews are being tested to the very limits this year. We literally have forest fires everywhere.

One of the most serious fires is up in the beautiful Lake Chelan are of central Washington.

This amazing photo appeared on the 'net this morning and it was taken in the Chelan area.

It's almost impossible to comprehend the skill of the pilot who dumps fire retardant while clipping sagebrush with both wings of his 727.

In-bloody-credible!!!

Blessings,

Steve

Cool photo!

I think it's a DC-10, not a 727.

Whip, I'm sure you are right.

Cartridges, shooting and killing stuff is my forte ... jet airplanes, not so much

Steve

I agree. Cool photo and a DC-10.

Mike

I only know because I flew on one as a kid right after several of them crashed and I think there were only 5 people on the flight.

Whip,

I remember the first time I flew on the then brand-new 727.

I was flying to Montana and was going to be hunting elk and deer for about ten days.

Little did I know that the takeoff of the new wunderkind 727 would be almost vertical. It was incredible, just incredible.

A pilot friend of mine told me later that the tail engine occasionally flamed-out when 727s took off at such an abrupt attitude. And, he said that the FAA then required a more gradual take-off angle.

Still, it was FUNNNNNN!!!

Steve

Bigger pic..(right click, view image)

Title says: dc-10-air-tanker-drops-retardant-over-chelan

A photographer named John Lindsey posted this one:

Business Associate took a flight from Spokane to Seattle and said, looking out the window, it seemed Washington State was covered with nothing but smoke all the way to the Cascades coming into Seattle...

blue sky above and looking like nothing but cloud below..

its pretty bad up that way....


Great photos by the way...

Not sure if this Evergreen 747 is still operational

I still can't believe they operate those big SOBs in this mountainous terrain.

WOW! Some really fine piloting skills on display.

I sure hope they get a handle on this soon, I sure we'll here from Washington soon that ISIS had nothing to do with it.........

God Bless these folks and their families.

As stressful as that kind of flying is, at least they don't have to put up with passengers.

The 727 was a hot rod, made back when speed and time mattered and jet fuel was cheap.

I loved to travel in the L10/11. Head room, cabin pressure was consistent and smooth. Miss tha plane. Pilots miss it too. Fun to fly I hear.

This last weekend was really, really smokey here in Milwaukie (OR). We had forest fire sunrises and forest fire sunsets both days ... it was like everything in our world was a weird orange color.

Several of our neighbors are elderly (older than us @72 ) and they suffered greatly from the air quality.

I'm praying for RAIN. We absolutely need it.

Steve

Been pretty hazy here in Alberta for the last few days,due to the smoke from the fires. Usually I can see the mountains from the high ground on my way to work, can't see the other side of the city at present, downtown is foggy looking due to the smoke, even with some wind. Been an odd year around here.

Ultimately, this movie is a gooey love story, but there are some cool wildfire-flying scenes. Worth a look for that.

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