Yowie, yes that is the Mars. More info available at the Forest Industries website
www.martinmars.com/. Some of the stats are pretty impressive. The best day they had, they dropped a million liters of water with one aircraft on one fire.
The bean counters wanted to close the operation down, citing the high cost of aircraft upkeep. What they fail to realize is that in one sweaty afternoon, one aircaft can save five million dollars worth of timber from going up in smoke.
Niknak, I dunno about the first photo. There may be some foreshortening caused by a telephoto lens. The Mars photo is no fake. The guy used a 55mm lens.
