CHEMTRAILS%20-%20CONFIRMED%20-%202010%20by%20William%20Thomas
CHEMTRAILS%20-%20CONFIRMED%20-%202010%20by%20William%20Thomas
CHEMTRAILS%20-%20CONFIRMED%20-%202010%20by%20William%20Thomas
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BYE-BYE HURRICANES, OR BYE-BYE US?<br />
While hurricane hunters like Dyn-O-Mat’s Peter Cordani are enthused over the potential of 7847 Super<br />
Tankers in this new role, Tom Robinson wouldn’t be caught dead in a converted DC-10 or 747 – mostly<br />
because he fears that’s how he’d end up. These are passenger planes, he pointed out – “too slick, too<br />
fast” and never made to drop big payloads before returning to a five-mile long runway.<br />
The supposed 24,000 gallon drops by converted 747s seen on YouTube are “computer- generated<br />
drops,” Robinson told me. Even with just 8,000 gallons onboard, “the wingtips were shaking so<br />
violently,” the engineer overseeing that first tentative test flight swore he never wanted to get back on.<br />
Serving as Chief operations officer for Global Emergency Response, Robinson has an ideal alternative.<br />
He flies the biggest fire-fighting planes in the world, the mindboggling IL-76 water bomber.<br />
Now he wants to use these huge airplanes to put out hurricanes.<br />
“I have been asked to participate in a federally-funded experiment in Florida, using the water bomber to<br />
attempt to minimize or totally disrupt a forming hurricane,” he emailed me, after listening to my 10 th<br />
appearance on Coast To Coast.<br />
“Supposedly, if we can drop the temperature of the forming "eye" by just one degree we can alter the<br />
outcome. I can deliver up to 18,000 gallons of environmentally-friendly coolant on a single flight and<br />
"seed" the eye with a high-pressure nozzle system capable of delivering the chemicals in a mile-wide<br />
swath.”<br />
That got this former Cessna driver’s attention. I called him up.<br />
The longtime American pilot and dedicated firefighter is a major fan of the Ilyushin-76. In the 15 years<br />
Robinson’s been flying IL-76s, there have been zero crashes and no serious accidents.<br />
“These are fantastic planes,” he said, rated by Jane’s All The World’s Aircraft and other aviation<br />
authorities as one of the safest planes around. It’s also the only airplane on this planet big enough and<br />
strong enough to carry 18,000 gallons of fire or hurricane retardant – and release the entire load in<br />
seconds without coming apart or diving out of control.