water-bomber

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a cargo plane especially equipped for carrying large quantities of water to be used in extinguishing forest fires.

Quotations

1961

The Grove and Tsus fires, they claim, could have been kept small if water bombers and helicopters had been available from the beginning. . . .

1965

They included two [forest fires] caused by lightning . . . one of which was knocked out by a Mars waterbomber. . . .