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Water Bombing Forest Fires
Cool Vid my buddy sent me. He is a ground pounder and worked with these type planes up north some time back.
![]() of the pilot wrestling with the controls is revealing... The old company, Bombardier Aerospace, makes these. They don't 'motor around" to fill the tanks---they touch down at approach speed, open the fill scoops, add lots of power, and the tanks fill in seconds. There's one scene in the film where you can see the two tank level gauges rapidly go up. The other neat thing is watching the magnitude of the flight control inputs, especially aileron, as they are maneuvering down low---sometimes the pilot is literally going stop to stop. Real flying!43 Grupo 2012 http://player.vimeo.com/video/48642618
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I have heard that the fire planes are a wild ride and take some sharp skills on the pilot's end.
Cal-Fire runs these two planes (among others) out of the airport (SBD) next door to my current project. The pilots running these planes seem to fly them like fighter jets! It's definitely a sight to see when one of the DC-10's take off and cut across the tops of all the buildings here after no more than getting off the ground. |
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cool video
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Nice video and great music!
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Great video.
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Thanks for the vid
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These pilots are awesome - I had a similar experience like the video below - but I my perspective was from the dock of the in laws summer place...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2nSRHbaEH0
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By the way were are you working . Profile says your from Tx.
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