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Post by beagle on Mar 10, 2012 20:28:20 GMT 12
Not that it worries me, but what sort of price are we talking about when fireing off those flares.
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Post by bell407 on Mar 10, 2012 21:16:02 GMT 12
Out standing, thanks for the replies, I hope we see that at Ohakia, I'm leaving Auckland on Friday morning and staying in fielding.
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Post by corsair67 on Mar 11, 2012 11:58:29 GMT 12
Not that it worries me, but what sort of price are we talking about when fireing off those flares. A weeks flying time for an NH-90 crew? ;D |
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Post by bell407 on Mar 11, 2012 12:37:08 GMT 12
I think they use older flares, stuff that will need to be fired off or destroyed anyway due to use by dates, everything has a shelf life, some stuff will last for a long time, other stuff, not so much, possibly find these flares belong to a batch that has exceeded their storage life and can no longer be relied upon to perform as needed in the case of needing them in a combat environment.
In thins case they could be used in training or for show as they were being replaced anyway.
Of course I could be talking rubbish because I don't really know, I just remember in South Africa, in order to get skippers license to take our boats out to sea we were required to have certain stuff on board like a radio, flares and smoke grenades all in case we got into bother we would be better prepared to assist in our own rescue, anyway, every so often we had to dispose of the smoke grenades and flares because they had passed the use by dates, so every so often guy Fawkes got awesome .
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Post by Ykato on Mar 11, 2012 23:09:03 GMT 12
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Post by flyjoe180 on Mar 13, 2012 9:15:44 GMT 12
Thanks for posting these guys, some great photographs there.
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Pics B407, Flyingkiwi, & mumbles 
