Originally Posted by
ramble on
Its criminal that we dont have a squadron of 10 dedicated CL415s operating here.
The CL415s are strong, amphibious, flexible and can be utilised in other roles by the ADF when not firefighting.
You do realise they only made about 160 of the things right? 215s and 415s. And strangely they are all already owned by other people. Maybe if we had any manufacturing capability left in this country we could manufacture more under licence from Viking, I don't know. Or wait another five years for the 515 to become available. Dreaming about the 415 isn't productive but I like the way you think. The more airplanes the better.
Sunfish, yes I definitely think you're off your meds again. Are you aware the NSW gov't already bought themselves an LAT or whatever it is? Wasn't that your original question? Maybe they read the expert advice here and bought in.