Cycleops
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- Accra, Ghana
Just read that a Canadair like the one in the video has crashed damping down the fires in Portugal. No comment on casualties.
Oh no, not good.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...ter-bombing-latest-news-updates-a7799621.htmlAnd, happily, not true either.
Came across this video from the Spanish Air Force - water bombing fires.
(Loud music soundtrack if you are tempted to watch at work!)
Colleague was telling me today...he'd had a crud day and was not in the best of moods and to cap it off he was just outside his house on the edge of the fens and a pair of incredibly low and fast aircraft shot by with an explosion of noise.
He said it frightened him to death, completely unexpected, incredibly loud.
He was in such a bad mood he explained he found himself hurling oaths at the already disappeared aircraft
He said at the time....any other time he'd have grinned ear to ear, but at that specific moment he was in a dark placeTell him that then god awful noise is the sound of freedom!
You may be correct. Thought it may be related to the Fairford show which is coming up. We'd be only some minutes from there, flying time.I suspect what you saw was a C-17, not the C-141 in the photo (they were retired more than 10 years ago).
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