Off she peeled to drop her next load on the fire (11), and we scooted back the hundred miles or so to Campbell River at about 40 ft altitude – now I know what it must have been like for the Dambusters – but we were in a seaplane and it was daylight, still very exciting! We piled back into the bus and drove back all the way to Sproat Lake, by which time both Mars were quietly resting on the water (12). Look at the size of the man on the tailplane of Hawaiian Mars!
After a while she took off again, circling round first (13), and then with a mighty roar making an airborne circuit (14) before rapidly disappearing.
What a day! Never to be forgotten, and the sheer power and size of the Mars have to be seen to be believed!
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