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Project AQUARIUS
TopThis film records the progress of a bushfire research study which was carried out during 1983 and 1984. The study was designed in the first instance to test the effectiveness of large aircraft in controlling bushfires by bombing them with water and fire retardants, but also to research the nature of wildfire, its effects on the bush and the firefighters, and the most effective forms of fire control.
Although the study could not be fully completed, it yielded a much better understanding of bushfire behaviour under Australian conditions and also a realization of the need to improve current fire rating indices.
Produced in 1984.
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1:34 | Montage - Ash Wednesday bushfires and newspaper headlines
2:15 | DC6 water tanker aircraft conducting water drop test
2:26 | Int - Phil Cheney
2:44 | Cockpit DC6 aircraft with pilots
2:49 | Member of US forest Service collecting drop test water samples
2:58 | Int - PC
3:04 | Bushfire, CFA fire fighting trucks
3:31 | CSIRO field laboratory (Aquarius Esky) weather monitoring facilities, communications centre
5:22 | Int - David Packham
5:59 | Phil Cheney discussing fire bombing strategy based on computer model
7:23 | Project team in field prepare for control burn, cleaning scrub by hand
7:39 | Int - Prof. Graeme Budd
8:27 | Chemical fire retardant being mixed and analysed
9:00 | DC6 being loaded with retardant
9:31 | Int - Captain Ralph Bolton, Conair
10:17 | Int - PC
10:25 | Fire survival tents being erected in fire path
10:48 | Int - PC
10:51 | Erecting anemometer site for measuring wind velocities within fire
11:53 | Medical team set up monitoring station
12:18 | Int - GB
12:28 | Medical team monitoring equipment and placing body temperature measuring gauges on fire fighters
13:04 | Int - GB
13:11 | Fire fighting crew being given psychological test
13:37 | Test fire being lit
14:03 | Helicopter cockpit
14:22 | DC6 engines starting, cockpit
14:37 | Helicopter takeoff
14:49 | DC6 take off
15:02 | Test fire - smoke plume, CFA fire crews working at fire front, DC6 flying thru smoke
16:36 | CSIRO fokker F27 exterior and interior showing infra-red fire mapping equipment
17:07 | Cockpit DC6
17:30 | Birddog Helicopter and DC6 over fire, bombing with retardant
18:08 | CFA crews on fire line construction and undergoing medical tests
18:45 | DC6 on fire retardant drop run
18:57 | F27 flying thru smoke, interior of F27 with remotely sensed infra-red maps of fire on video screen
19:17 | Medical team testing fire fighter
19:49 | Helicopter and DC6 at Sale airbase, pilots walking away from aircraft
20:08 | Aftermath of fire, smoldering logs
20:16 | Researchers collecting fire recording instruments from blackened bush
20:37 | Wind data being analysed
20:53 | Team discuss fire test, video of infra-red images of fire fronts examined and analysed
21:24 | Computer plotting footprint of test drops from aircraft
22:38 | Int - PC
23:25 | Bush fire front
23:32 | Computer & operator conducting economical analysis of fire data
24:30 | Int - Bill Lown
24:36 | Ash Wednesday fires- Ext source
24:58 | Int - BL
25:38 | Int - GB
26:50 | Int - PC
27:54 | Credits
28:34 | End
1:34 | Montage - Ash Wednesday bushfires and newspaper headlines
2:15 | DC6 water tanker aircraft conducting water drop test
2:26 | Int - Phil Cheney
2:44 | Cockpit DC6 aircraft with pilots
2:49 | Member of US forest Service collecting drop test water samples
2:58 | Int - PC
3:04 | Bushfire, CFA fire fighting trucks
3:31 | CSIRO field laboratory (Aquarius Esky) weather monitoring facilities, communications centre
5:22 | Int - David Packham
5:59 | Phil Cheney discussing fire bombing strategy based on computer model
7:23 | Project team in field prepare for control burn, cleaning scrub by hand
7:39 | Int - Prof. Graeme Budd
8:27 | Chemical fire retardant being mixed and analysed
9:00 | DC6 being loaded with retardant
9:31 | Int - Captain Ralph Bolton, Conair
10:17 | Int - PC
10:25 | Fire survival tents being erected in fire path
10:48 | Int - PC
10:51 | Erecting anemometer site for measuring wind velocities within fire
11:53 | Medical team set up monitoring station
12:18 | Int - GB
12:28 | Medical team monitoring equipment and placing body temperature measuring gauges on fire fighters
13:04 | Int - GB
13:11 | Fire fighting crew being given psychological test
13:37 | Test fire being lit
14:03 | Helicopter cockpit
14:22 | DC6 engines starting, cockpit
14:37 | Helicopter takeoff
14:49 | DC6 take off
15:02 | Test fire - smoke plume, CFA fire crews working at fire front, DC6 flying thru smoke
16:36 | CSIRO fokker F27 exterior and interior showing infra-red fire mapping equipment
17:07 | Cockpit DC6
17:30 | Birddog Helicopter and DC6 over fire, bombing with retardant
18:08 | CFA crews on fire line construction and undergoing medical tests
18:45 | DC6 on fire retardant drop run
18:57 | F27 flying thru smoke, interior of F27 with remotely sensed infra-red maps of fire on video screen
19:17 | Medical team testing fire fighter
19:49 | Helicopter and DC6 at Sale airbase, pilots walking away from aircraft
20:08 | Aftermath of fire, smoldering logs
20:16 | Researchers collecting fire recording instruments from blackened bush
20:37 | Wind data being analysed
20:53 | Team discuss fire test, video of infra-red images of fire fronts examined and analysed
21:24 | Computer plotting footprint of test drops from aircraft
22:38 | Int - PC
23:25 | Bush fire front
23:32 | Computer & operator conducting economical analysis of fire data
24:30 | Int - Bill Lown
24:36 | Ash Wednesday fires- Ext source
24:58 | Int - BL
25:38 | Int - GB
26:50 | Int - PC
27:54 | Credits
28:34 | End