| Locust Plagues are a real problem for mankind and | | | | approaches the swarm. This does a couple of things. |
| are so huge and ominous that nothing seems to be | | | | It sends wing tip vortices and massive a amount of |
| able to stop them. We have tried to use chemicals, | | | | wake turbulence into the swarm and disrupts the |
| pesticides and other insecticides to stop them but | | | | airflow, while scattering the swarm and confuses the |
| they just keep on going and eating. It takes days for | | | | insects. See how intense the wake turbulence on a |
| them to die, but it does not even seem to slow | | | | 747 can be when it is fully loaded and down and |
| them down. Worse off in many nations especially in | | | | dirty. |
| Africa, they have a tradition of eating them. Why? | | | | We also should stick appendages on the aircraft, |
| Well mostly out of necessity, after all once the | | | | which can be deployed prior to this maneuver to |
| locusts have eaten up your season's crops, what is | | | | insure even more disruptive airflow. And we should |
| left to eat anyway? | | | | pick a target area over flat land or even water such |
| Now then aerial firefighting has also evolved a long | | | | as Africa's Lake Victoria where the Locust Plagues |
| way and maybe not as evolved as the Locust | | | | cross each year. Next as the aircraft pulls up it |
| Swarms, but humans are getting a pretty good | | | | releases its load onto the locusts and then comes |
| handle on how to fight wildfires and forest fires. For | | | | back around and flies the pattern backwards as the |
| instance you may wish to refresh your memory on | | | | locusts try to regroup and attacks from the rear |
| some of our advancements. | | | | dumping the remained of the load with a high-speed |
| I therefore propose taking the new 747 Fire Bomber | | | | fly-by at approximately 350 feet AGL and 400 knots |
| concept which is to be used to put out massive wild | | | | indicated. The load is spread in the direction of their |
| fires and getting low to about 300 feet AGL and 280 | | | | path and they will fly right through all the load, which |
| knots indicated while fully loaded and pulling up as it | | | | was dropped in the second pass. |