Originally Posted by rydabent

There are a lot of good condition parked 747s. It looks to me like the western states should form a corporation and buy up a fleet of them, and convert them to water bombers. We see on the news of one single helicopter or water bomber dropping a small amount of water. How ever the short range pay load of a 747 is 250,000 pounds. When a fire threatens a town, fly a whole fleet ,15-20 over the fire and put it out. Repeat if necessary. Five MILLION pounds of water on a fire on the out skirts of town would surely help douse the fire, to where fire fighters could then kill it off.