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Still the best yoke and rudder video!
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Way cool! There are a few of those at the Bozeman, MT airport and part of a hull. Fun to see them maxing FPS on the climbout!
 
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Those Canadairs are really something to see. So is the Martin Mars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqYwqVqwDQQ


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Hi guys that’s real flying I flew all over the world retired on the B767 but the best job I ever had was water bombing.In the old days before the CL215/415. I did 5175 pickups and bomb runs,with the PBY. Adds up to 43,000,000 pounds of water.Great fun.
Take care. Bill


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Originally posted by Bill Brady:
Hi guys that’s real flying I flew all over the world retired on the B767 but the best job I ever had was water bombing.In the old days before the CL215/415. I did 5175 pickups and bomb runs,with the PBY. Adds up to 43,000,000 pounds of water.Great fun.
Take care. Bill

Sounds like a great adventure! Hope all is well up your way. We miss fishing north of Bella Bella.


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"I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends."
----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836
"I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841
"for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.”
 
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Bill, you wouldn't have any "pitchers" or film would you? Flying water bombers is a dream for many of us. Cool


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Hi Bill
I wish I did I’m a good pilot but terrible photographer,I was always say oh that would have been a good picture.I had a very interesting career and was thinking just the other day the only thing I would change would be to take more pictures.
Take care. Bill


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43,000,000 ?
 
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43,000,000 ?


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I worked on final assembly of the CL 215's back in the 80's.


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