©Police Aviation Research Number 115 November 2005 IPAR Montana, Idaho and Oregon and California fires in September. Over the Labor Day weekend, early September, photographer, Craig Dyer, had a ‘SkyCrane adventure’ in the skies of Montana, Idaho and Oregon flying as co- pilot to Chris Anderson for a few days on the Heavy Lift ship. He states that it is awesome to fly a crane – not many people are able to say that. There are only about 30 SkyCranes flyable in the world and about 100 pilot's that fly them. On September 29 Craig flew over a fire at Topanga, California. The morning activity was not very intense, but once the winds shifted about 1500-1600hrs, it ‘got very crazy.’ A lot of resources were thrown at this fire before sunset in attempt to protect homes. Once again the photographer was * flying one of the Heavy Lift helicopters capable of carrying 2,600 gallons of water. [More images inside Page 12] Police Aviation News November 2005 2 PAN – POLICE AVIATION NEWS is published monthly by INTERNATIONAL POLICE AVIATION RESEARCH 7 Windmill Close, Honey Lane, Waltham Abbey, Essex EN9 3BQ UK +44 1992 714162 Bryn Elliott
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