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Old 9th December 2008, 02:03 PM
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Default Ericksons have arrived!!
Three Skycrane 54B helicopters arrived by freighter (Amalie Scan) into Sydney earlier this afternoon. The ship is docked at Glebe Island 2.

For those interested here are some stats:
Max. Speed: 100 kts
Water tank capacity: 9000 ltrs
Foam concentrate: 50 ltrs
Hover fill: 50 secs
Sea snorkel fill: 40 secs
Fuel burn: 1893 ltr/hr
Fuel Capacity: 5114 ltr
Length: 27.23 mtrs
Main Rotor: 22 mtrs
Height: 7.82 mtrs
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Old 9th December 2008, 02:12 PM
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Hi Greg,

You must be referring to these bubble-wrapped baby's.



Spotted previously today from my conveniently located eagle eye position.
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Old 9th December 2008, 02:16 PM
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Mate - you're good. I wish I could get views like that from my office...
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Old 9th December 2008, 02:23 PM
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Not the best fuel economy!
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Old 9th December 2008, 03:13 PM
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Not the best fuel economy!
Probably purposely designed that way so that in the unfortunate event one of these workhorses was to go down, it wouldn't add much to the fire because there wouldn't be much fuel left.

Oh I shouldn't joke about such things.

Let's hope that they're not too busy this summer!
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Old 9th December 2008, 04:55 PM
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Are there two or three onboard, there is already one out at Bankstown.
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Old 9th December 2008, 06:12 PM
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Definitely 3 on board Grahame. The third is hiding behind the container on the foredeck.
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Saw one at BK last week. These things make a tremendous amount of noise!
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Old 9th December 2008, 08:52 PM
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Not the best fuel economy!
Yikes.... that's 1/2 litre per second!!
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Old 9th December 2008, 10:06 PM
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From what I understand, one should be heading towards Adelaide in the next couple of weeks.
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