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N172AC —
This unusual bird came to town in 2011, so I shot it with my Nikon D700.
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It's a Sikorsky S-64F Skycrane, good photo of it too.
A very versatile aircraft, can be fitted out for heavy duty lifting, also as in this case for aerial water suction into their onboard tank/s via the white suction hose which would hang down a few more meters during flight, so the Heli just hovers over the lake dipping the suction hose to such in the huge quantity of water in a few seconds, fly a sortie to the location of say a forest fire & return & do repetitive drops thus dowsing the fire. The other option is a hanging water bucket below which it dunks & fils up at lakes or rivers & air drops it over the fire zone. The whole idea being to save time for landing & take off.
I got a couple of showers from this one in N Texas that year. They are impressive to watch.
Nice photo of a familiar Erikson Air Crane rotary bird we have come over to us in Australia every summer for bush fire fighting use. They do a fantastic job, and are all uniquely named too. :)
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Date | Aircraft | Origin | Destination | Departure | Arrival | Duration |
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16-Jul-2025 | S64 | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | 07:43AM +03 | 07:43AM +03 | 0:00 |
15-Jul-2025 | S64 | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | 10:14PM +03 | 10:20PM +03 | 0:06 |
15-Jul-2025 | S64 | Manisa/Akhisar (LTBT) | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | 07:11PM +03 | 08:21PM +03 | 1:09 |
15-Jul-2025 | S64 | Manisa/Akhisar (LTBT) | Manisa/Akhisar (LTBT) | 04:31PM +03 | 06:30PM +03 (?) | 1:59 |
15-Jul-2025 | S64 | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | Manisa/Akhisar (LTBT) | 01:40PM +03 | 03:26PM +03 | 1:46 |
15-Jul-2025 | S64 | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | 01:32PM +03 | 01:33PM +03 | 0:00 |
15-Jul-2025 | S64 | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | 07:09AM +03 | 07:10AM +03 | 0:00 |
13-Jul-2025 | S64 | Near Bodrum | İzmir Adnan Menderes Int'l (ADB / LTBJ) | 06:24PM +03 | 08:10PM +03 | 1:45 |
12-Jul-2025 | S64 | Near Bodrum | Near Bodrum | First seen 05:01PM +03 | Last seen 05:02PM +03 | 0:00 |
10-Jul-2025 | S64 | Near Aydın, Turkey | Near Bodrum | First seen 04:40PM +03 | Last seen 04:48PM +03 | 0:07 |
07-Jul-2025 | S64 | Near Bodrum | Near Bodrum | First seen 05:16PM +03 | Last seen 05:18PM +03 | 0:01 |
06-Jul-2025 | S64 | Near Bodrum | Near Bodrum | First seen 04:48PM +03 | Last seen 06:11PM +03 | 1:23 |
03-Jul-2025 | S64 | Near Bodrum | Near Bodrum | First seen 02:59PM +03 | Last seen 04:07PM +03 | 1:08 |
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