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As jets take charge of fire-bombing missions, the 62-year-old piston-powered Tanker 60 takes its last flight over Oregon
As jets take over as fire-bombing aircraft, the piston-powered Douglas DC-7 plane, aka "Tanker 60," is going into retirement. This Eastern Air Lines plane was built in 1958 and spent its early years flying up and down the East Coast and to the Caribbean. In the 1970s, the plane was gutted and refit to be a air tanker and fire bomber, used to drop fire retardant from above, and has since spent over 40 years fighting fires. (www.msn.com) 更多...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Great read. Thank you.
Nicely done article. Delta also had some of the 7B planes I was privileged to work on a few years. We always ran up the engines each morning before flight time and loading passengers. Easy engines to start. Great times!
Excellent write-up. Hate to see these ol' propliners go away. Seconding the comment, grizzly Mike at Buffalo might want her.
Makes me teary. Thanks for good service.
...it was so appropriate to see Captain Carpinella log out sitting in a 1st class seat...exactly where he belongs...
Can the 60+ year old birds with ancient and hard to find turboprop engines be far behind (L188, CV580, P3)? How many more wing planks can they add to those Electras? Those old wings have been flexed and stretched thousands of times.