12-24-2019, 10:36 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-24-2019, 10:37 AM by thorn bird.)
Found the following snippet in todays Australian Last Post.
A reader asks a rather poignant question:
"Acknowledging that Australia is a bushfire-prone country, why do we still spend thousands of dollars every week between September and March hiring fire-fighting aircraft and helicopters from the US when we should be building a fleet of Elvis-Type air cranes for our own use each summer, then hiring them out to other countries during winter?" John Clark.
Well john old mate sorry to inform you, firstly, it aint thousands a week, it 100's of thousands a week.
Secondly, there is a rather large impediment to building anything to do with aviation in Australia, its called CAsA.
A reader asks a rather poignant question:
"Acknowledging that Australia is a bushfire-prone country, why do we still spend thousands of dollars every week between September and March hiring fire-fighting aircraft and helicopters from the US when we should be building a fleet of Elvis-Type air cranes for our own use each summer, then hiring them out to other countries during winter?" John Clark.
Well john old mate sorry to inform you, firstly, it aint thousands a week, it 100's of thousands a week.
Secondly, there is a rather large impediment to building anything to do with aviation in Australia, its called CAsA.