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Can the Kaman KMax Help Japan? ( Vanity )
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| 3/15/2011
| taildragger
Posted on 03/15/2011 11:02:05 AM PDT by taildragger
Freeper Rotorcraft Pilots...
Kaman has been working on an UAV version of the KMax and their is a fire / water delivery version of it.
Can American ingenuity combine the 2 and get a few to Japan to help cool the Reactors ASAP?
Do we as a Nation "Still Have it"?
I look forard to your responses....
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics
KEYWORDS: heliocopters; technology; uav; waterbomber
To: taildragger
Don’t we already have some pretty impressive firefighting aircraft, including choppers that could do the job at hand without having to re-engineer/modify something?
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posted on
03/15/2011 11:04:18 AM PDT
by
TheBattman
(They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature...)
To: TheBattman
I am sure we do, I am thinking can we limit radiation exposure via a UAV if you will....
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posted on
03/15/2011 11:05:39 AM PDT
by
taildragger
(( Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
To: taildragger
It would be a good test. Are the avionics EMP hardened? If not they may have problems.
To: TheBattman
Don’t we already have some pretty impressive firefighting aircraft, including choppers that could do the job at hand without having to re-engineer/modify something? Actually, I think there is a west coast company using WW2 era Martin flying boats as water bombers.
That may be something to consider.
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posted on
03/15/2011 11:10:00 AM PDT
by
Cowman
(How can the IRS seize property without a warrant if the 4th amendment still stands?)
To: Portcall24
It would be a good test. Are the avionics EMP hardened? If not they may have problems. You may be mistaking Electro Magnetic Pulse, EMP, with nuclear radiation.
They are different. EMP occurs when there is a nuclear detonation as well as during lightening storms. Nuclear radiation is the decay from unstable atoms.
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posted on
03/15/2011 11:31:22 AM PDT
by
OldMissileer
(Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
To: taildragger
Why bother?
We already have a proven system in Fire Scout. Use it to drop boron impregnated lead balls into the reactor.
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posted on
03/15/2011 11:47:37 AM PDT
by
ASOC
(What are you doing now that Mexico has become OUR Chechnya?)
To: taildragger
What it takes is a brave man... Anyone heard of Anatoly Ghrischenko... He's the man lying in the hospital bed. He flew load after load of barium and lead salts over the Chernobyl reactor - which was totally exposed. What the Japanese need now are electricity, pipes, pumps, and brave men. The workers who have volunteered to stay behind know that death from radiation induced leukemia complications will probably be their fate.
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posted on
03/15/2011 11:52:50 AM PDT
by
Waverunner
(I'd like to welcome our new overlords, say hello to my little friend)
To: OldMissileer
To: taildragger; All
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posted on
03/21/2011 2:10:22 PM PDT
by
taildragger
(( Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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