And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I remember being very close to retardant drops twice. It isn't like a gentle mist. You can hear it crashing through the forest canopy driving pine needles, broken branches and spotted owls right at you and when it hits, it sticks. They called it slurry, or wet water. It wasn't just dyed water. I had heard that sometimes it even had tree seeds mixed in. What a mess.
Now, that was a DC-10 air tanker. it could drop that load several times before having to reload. I thought he was a little high. lower drop makes for a thicker blanket of slurry which is the whole point of the exercise. and not just seed but also has fertilizer. knocking off branches and spotted owls means the drop was from the right height. old torpedo bombers never die they just fly for the forrest service.
Not God. A 767 tanker full of retardant.
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ReplyDeleteI remember being very close to retardant drops twice. It isn't like a gentle mist. You can hear it crashing through the forest canopy driving pine needles, broken branches and spotted owls right at you and when it hits, it sticks. They called it slurry, or wet water. It wasn't just dyed water. I had heard that sometimes it even had tree seeds mixed in. What a mess.
ReplyDeleteNow, that was a DC-10 air tanker. it could drop that load several times before having to reload. I thought he was a little high. lower drop makes for a thicker blanket of slurry which is the whole point of the exercise. and not just seed but also has fertilizer. knocking off branches and spotted owls means the drop was from the right height. old torpedo bombers never die they just fly for the forrest service.
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