The Thinas It Carried

摘要

An Aging C-131H with a stately past lifted off from an airfield in Saskatchewan, Canada, last spring on a most unceremonious mission. Leveling off at about 3,000 feet, the twin-engine turboprop dumped 1,750 imperial gallons of red-tinged flame retardant on burning pine and spruce forests in the province's north-em reaches. Fifty-three years after rolling off an assembly line in San Diego, California, the Convair works asa"water bomber" for the Canadian government.