Coulson Flying Tankers, The Hawaii Mars performs for the crowd. Take-Off Water-Drop, Fly-Bys and Landing Sunday July 8th 2007, Sproat Lake, Port Alberni, BC

This is a S-61 (SH3) testing it's 1000 gallon internal tank system. I set it to music.

Ministry of Natural Resources Water Bomber CL-415 and Eurocopter EC-130 (***note the video mislabeled the EC-130 as the AS-350 which was originally indicated for the show***) demonstrated two key elements of their forest fire detection, monitoring, suppression and public information. The Canadair 'Water Bomber'.... more

Lockheed C-130 Hercules water bomber crash

Water bomber Martin Mars piloted by Steve Stackhouse. The main base of operations for Flying Tankers is situated on Sproat Lake near Port Alberni on Vancouver Island. Integrated maintenance, operations and administration are housed in modern facilities. http://www.martinmars.com/index.htm

Fire water bomber 12 P2V Neptune takeoff and LOW! landing at Fox field airport,CA. Coming close to power lines and me!

One of the world largest Aerial firefighters, Air Tanker 910 landing Southern California Logistics Airport (Victorville) Runway 21. The call-sign of this water bomber is 10 Tanker Air Carrier.

A CL-215 water bomber practicing at Paddy's Pond NL July 24 2008

Coulson Flying Services Martin JRM Hawaii Mars was temporarily based at Lake Elsinore, California during the fire season of 2007.

CL415 Demonstration Aerial Fire Fighter