Here's some photos for all you AS350B2 fans out there...:-) It's a nicely equipped and maintained Astar owned by Rogers Helicopters (Fresno, California). The first two photos show it lifting 120 gals. of water out of a 10,000' MSL lake in the San Juan National Forest of Colorado in mid-July.
This photo is the same helicopter in Glacier National Park in Montana later in the year on the Morningstar Fire. We were at 9,000 ft. lifting full 144 gal. buckets.
Kudos to Bill Pool of Boeing in Phoenix for the photos. He does wildland firefighting for a hobby! He takes a couple weeks off from his regular job every year so he can eat smoke and shoot pictures.
