Pics of the Air Crane??
Submitted: Sunday, Jan 28, 2007 at 21:31
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Sign-man
I've searched the site- but cannot find the post with those fantastic pics of the Erickson Air Crane during the Vic. fires...
Can anyone recall the post number??
Thanks
Reply By: Sarg - Sunday, Jan 28, 2007 at 23:22
Sunday, Jan 28, 2007 at 23:22
Site Link
Site Link
plumpton.rfsa.org.au/skycrane.htm
if you need anymore just type in elvis skycrane & do a search.
too easy
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Reply By: Kev M (NSW) - Monday, Jan 29, 2007 at 07:52
Monday, Jan 29, 2007 at 07:52
see post 40253.
Pics taken by Leroy
Cheers Kev
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Follow Up By: Kev M (NSW) - Monday, Jan 29, 2007 at 07:54
Monday, Jan 29, 2007 at 07:54
Sorry Post 40243
Fat fingers this morning
Kev
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Reply By: Member - Jeff H (QLD) - Monday, Jan 29, 2007 at 23:46
Monday, Jan 29, 2007 at 23:46
Sign-Man, not your problem: just wonder if another reader can tell me when the name changed from "Sky crane" to "Air crane"?
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Follow Up By: Member - John R (NSW) - Tuesday, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:18
Tuesday, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:18
Gidday Jeff,
From memory, Sikorsky gave the S-64 aircraft the nick "Skycrane", whereas the company that operates them in Oz is called "Erickson Air-crane".
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Follow Up By: StephenF10 - Tuesday, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:18
Tuesday, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:18
And why do people call them all "Elvis"? There are probably a dozen Erickson Skycranes in use around the world and only one (N179AC) is Elvis. The one on the Plumpton site above is labelled as Elvis but is clearly Georgia Peach (N154AC).
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Follow Up By: Member - John R (NSW) - Tuesday, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:46
Tuesday, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:46
Hi Stephen,
You'd have to ask the owner of that website. I suspect it's a generic name the owner has given to the type (as 'Elvis' was the first of it's type to be used here on fires).
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Reply By: Leroy - Tuesday, Jan 30, 2007 at 08:02
Tuesday, Jan 30, 2007 at 08:02
pics are still sitting in my webspace as per the post number above. Those pics did the rounds. I even received via email with them coming through email addresses I didn't recognise.
Leroy
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Follow Up By: Member -Signman - Tuesday, Jan 30, 2007 at 13:26
Tuesday, Jan 30, 2007 at 13:26
Thanks Leroy
Yea- they were excellent pics.
I must admit to you, I have sent them around to interested partys.
Maybe you should claim royalties???
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