The fight over water is nothing new on Maui. But the impact on the county’s ability to battle fires is coming clear.
With wildfires ravaging West Maui on Aug. 8, a state water official delayed the release of water that landowners wanted to help protect their property from fires. The water standoff played out over much of the day and the water didn’t come until too late.
And most aircraft react very poorly to salt. Catalina PBYs we’re used in the Berlin airlift to airdrop salt supplies precisely because they were already heavily protected from the corrosion.
I’m not sure that normal water dropping planes have that.
Salt water destroys just about everything doesn’t it?
Not really? Naval brass/bronze has been used for ages because it’s reasonably resistant. Noble metals, too.
copper in ship’s hull paint is used specifically to keep marine critters from growing on hulls.
Then there’s the silica’s and other minerals, etc,
Typical aluminum alloys (duralumin comes to mind) are very easily attacked by salt