De Havilland calls for national water bomber fleet as it scrambles to meet demand
toronto.citynews.ca
MONTREAL — On July 13, a pair of Canadair water bombers touched down on the Seine River, skimming along its surface to refill their water tanks as they battled a wildfire south of Paris.

Link is to article about Canada’s great need for firefighting aircraft.

Call me crazy… but 99% of the time wouldn’t a shared firefighting aircraft fleet shared between Australia and Canada or perhaps a European nation only be needed in one or the other place at any one given time of year??

  • dusk@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    22 hours ago

    Too far away.

    If canada needs more, they can build, or buy more, or are they too busy building oil pipelines?

    • supersquirrel@lemmy.caOP
      1·
      22 hours ago

      Than why is it cheaper and more advisable to buy an airplane built on the other side of the world (legal complications aside for a moment) than build one yourself?

      • dusk@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        20 hours ago

        If in Canada, I doubt that is the case.

        In Australia… we are on the other side of the planet to the majority.