And with the exception of the DC10, the hercs and RJ85 would easily be able to land at Busselton to refill with water, cuts the transit time to what, 5 mins?
How about not cutting up the old caribous when they were being scrapped and outfitting them with tanks?
2 of cobham's 146's are being scrapped, they could be operated by Cobham on behalf of the govmint!