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The Other Gulf War

机译:另一场海湾战争

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LESS THAN 30 MINUTES after the BPDeepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico last April 20, five U.S. Coast Guard aircraft took off from New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama, and headed to the scene. In the weeks that followed, this small fleet grew into one of the largest and most intricately coordinated civil air support missions in the nation's history. Lasting more than three months, the mission involved more than 200 aircraft—from 70-year-old, radial-engine DC-3s to a NASA ER-2, the agency's version of the high-flying U-2 spyplane. Even a Navy airship, call-signed "Warlock 9A," joined the effort to protect the Gulf Coast from oil. The Coast Guard is often the agency charged with overseeing the federal response to maritime ecological disasters, and this response, according to chief of aviation forces Captain Michael Emerson, would grow to the size of the operation required by Hurricane Katrina.
机译:BPDeepwater Horizo​​n钻机于4月20日在墨西哥湾爆炸后不到30分钟,五架美国海岸警卫队飞机从阿拉巴马州的新奥尔良和莫比尔起飞,前往现场。在随后的几周中,这支小型机队发展成为美国历史上规模最大,最复杂的民用航空支援任务之一。历时三个多月,任务涉及200多架飞机,从拥有70年历史的径向发动机DC-3到美国宇航局ER-2,这是该机构的U-2高空侦察机版本。甚至是海军飞艇(呼号为“ Warlock 9A”)也参与了保护墨西哥湾沿岸免受石油污染的工作。海岸警卫队通常是负责监督联邦政府对海洋生态灾难的反应的机构,据空军参谋长迈克尔·爱默生上尉说,这种反应将扩大到卡特里娜飓风所要求的行动规模。

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    《Air and Space》 |2011年第6期|p.22-25|共4页
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    MARK HUBER;

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