Originally Posted by
43Inches
As far as the CL range of aircraft, they would make a great addition for a select area of Australia, mainly around the east coast where adequate water areas are abundant. But as said before they would struggle for sortie times away from these areas.
At 30 million each? The best job I've seen with both pilots and operational dropping has been the DC10, A load of 3 or 4 times more than a LAT. A lot of LAT lines have to be reinforced, never had to do that with a DC10 drop.