Errors of fact in the Jacklet piece:(a) Tom Robinson represents "Global Emergency Response"
www.waterbomber.com, not "Global Emergency Relief."
(b) Global Emergency Response is a Russian-US-Canadian
joint venture and not a "Canadian company." For a legal
description of the JV, please see the lead-in to this item: http://www.waterbomber.com/rebuttal.htm
(c) Although the Il-76 waterbomber has performed DownUnder
at the Southern Hemisphere's largest airshow for a week and
been taken to another week's test at Zhukovsky, in Moscow,
by the Australasian Fire Authorities Council (and found to be a
"very, very good firefighting airplane")
http://www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/media/2003/news_03172003_aus.htm,
it has never seen firefighting duty in Australia. But that is another story.
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