{"id":1417,"date":"2014-08-14T11:40:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T19:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2014-08-14T11:43:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T19:43:48","slug":"fighting-fires-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/fighting-fires-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Fires From They Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/fighting-fires-sky\/\" data-text=\"Fighting Fires From They Sky\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>It seems like the right time for this &#8211; this is fire season. \u00a0All over the west, but in California&#8230;Northern California in particular. \u00a0Since I live near <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/McClellan_Airfield\" target=\"_blank\">an airfield<\/a>\u00a0with a long runway, the occasional large tanker flies over my house. \u00a0So why not do a little post with some video of the largest air tanker in operation in the U.S.? \u00a0That would be the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DC-10_Air_Tanker\" target=\"_blank\">DC-10 &#8220;Rainmaker&#8221;.<\/a>\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DC-10\" target=\"_blank\">McDonnell-Douglas DC-10<\/a> is a wide-body airliner that is no longer used for commercial passenger flight. \u00a0It&#8217;s three engine configuration, with two engines mounted on wing pylons and the third engine mounted at the base of the vertical stabilizer makes it easily identifiable whether on the ground or in flight. \u00a0The DC-10 ended production in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Modern_Marvels\" target=\"_blank\">Modern Marvels<\/a> segment that give you the basic facts:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WG06xAbBf3Q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some footage taken by a news crew that was in the drop zone:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JQ8ATtrvfbE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There are only two of these flying, Tanker 910 and Tanker 911. \u00a0Quite a machine. \u00a0Glad we have &#8217;em.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet It seems like the right time for this &#8211; this is fire season. \u00a0All over the west, but in California&#8230;Northern California in particular. \u00a0Since I live near an airfield\u00a0with a long runway, the occasional large tanker flies over my house. \u00a0So why not do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-life","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}