Date: 4/12/2015 01:26:48
From: CrazyNeutrino
ID: 808700
Subject: Unmanned helicopter drones to fight fires

Unmanned helicopter and drone join forces in safer approach to fighting fire

Attacking out of control forest fires from the air with manned helicopters and planes is a technique that has been used for decades, but we are now starting to see what their unmanned cousins have to offer. In a recent demonstration, Lockheed Martin has shown how the unmanned K-MAX helicopter can combine with a quadcopter to battle blazes below. And critically, it did so while keeping Air Traffic Control informed of their every move.

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Date: 4/12/2015 11:41:55
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 808801
Subject: re: Unmanned helicopter drones to fight fires

There really has to be a better way of fighting fires. How about a motorcycle?

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Date: 4/12/2015 11:43:02
From: Cymek
ID: 808802
Subject: re: Unmanned helicopter drones to fight fires

Does it spray water or just update on the fires progress

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Date: 4/12/2015 12:00:12
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 808819
Subject: re: Unmanned helicopter drones to fight fires

Cymek said:


Does it spray water or just update on the fires progress

Either

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Date: 17/12/2015 01:31:09
From: Kingy
ID: 815099
Subject: re: Unmanned helicopter drones to fight fires

mollwollfumble said:


There really has to be a better way of fighting fires. How about a motorcycle?

Not sure that a motorcycle would be much use against a firefront 60 meters high and 100km wide. Unless it was a really big motorcycle.

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Date: 17/12/2015 01:33:24
From: Kingy
ID: 815101
Subject: re: Unmanned helicopter drones to fight fires

Busselton just got our two heavy helitaks yesterday. Now we have 4 fixed wings, and two rotaries available within an hour.

Drone water bombers sound good in theory, but the budget is the biggest problem.

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Date: 17/12/2015 02:29:47
From: roughbarked
ID: 815111
Subject: re: Unmanned helicopter drones to fight fires

Isn’t fire prevention the best cure?

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