Robin Airplane Minnesota Forest Fire Fighting 1929 Ad

Robin Airplane Minnesota Forest Fire Fighting 1929 Advertisement

"A Robin helps fight a Minnesota Forest Fire"

"Fire at the backwoods, fanned by a stiff wind. At first alarm, a pontoon-equipped Robin skims the smooth surface of a tree-lined Minnesota lake. An aerial fir-fighting crew goes toward an inky black pillar of smoke 4,000 feet high....through a thick hot haze into the fire swept regions. Down...between a strip of blazing woodland and a wall of smoke, to a landing on a tiny fire-walled lake. Action aplenty-equipment landed, a quick survey. Back into the Robin for a fast retreat. Out...the only way out is up...almost straight up. No job for an unstable plane. But the Robin never flinched. Safely back at the base...ready for the next test. That's the story of a Robin fire patrol plane, told by HARRY DAVIDSON, a Minnesota pilot."    

photo captions: "Two Remarkable Photos of the Minnesota forest fires taken from the fire fighting Robin. Under these day in and day out flying conditions, the Robin pulled through without a trace of trouble. Harry Davidson, the pilot, said "Forest fires raise merry hades with the air," and we can well believe it."   ****   "Pilot Harry Davidson and the pontoon-equipped Robin ready to take-off at a moment's notice. See the heavy load of fire fighting apparatus on the pontoon."

Curtiss-Robertson Airplane Manufacturing Company, Division of Curtiss-Wright Corporation, New York

The date appears in the upper margin, it does not show in the scanned image.

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1929 Aviation Publication Advertisement

Approximate Dimensions 8" X 11 1/2"

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