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Old 22nd August 2001 | 20:40
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B Sousa
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A Funny one or two, if you dont mind. I was dropping water with a Bambi Bucket from a bell 205 on a fire in California. It was dry and We had been getting water from wherever We could. I took a load of water from some farmers Private pond and was told later that I had also airmailed some of his Pet Turtles on a hot spot.......Oh Well.
Another time I land on a ridge line to offload a fire crew. It was dusty but not much active fire at the time. We had the doors pinned back so they could exit quickly. After about 20 seconds of holding in power on this one skid ridge, I felt some real heat up my neck. I was able to realize that the rotor wash had kicked up some humongous flames and they were now going through my rotor disk. We were outta there.....ha ha
Those were the good times, there were others.....
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