They are military so they fly as a flight with a flight leader. They could drop more water in the same amount of time if they flew as individuals but that would offend the military chain of command.
Well done to the camera operator for holding the shot for last bomber, then panning with it & holding the shot. As a professional cam-op I appreciate it.
@@hermespsychopompos8267 It's not in Greece. The video said Villefranche-sur-mer (and i can confirm i live not far away so i know how this city look) it's in France :)
my dad flew fighters for years and now he flies for united. he told me once those guys make quite good money and the level of skill and expertise to get into flying something like that is very high. super cool planes, those pilots do important work no doubt
@@sorryforthings72 nah i don't think so, he's a 737 instructor now with united and he likes it. he might've considered it in the past but he went the commercial route
@@michaeldowson6988 Yes, you're right. In France, they typically come from either the French Air & Space Force, or the Navy, and I believe that they must have logged in a minimum of 3000 flight hours and 12 years of experience before applying. Also, their average start salary is around €2200/month (gross). That's less than 30k per year for a maximum of 8h/day of work in the peak season... and a maximum of risks, day in, day out!
Wow ... think of how skilfull the pilot must be considering the drag on the aircraft as it fills and the huge change in weight distribution as the tanks fill ...
There is something called "ground effect" when you fly close to the ground or the water. The plane stabilizes itself because the air kind of gets compressed under the wings. I copy a small part of the wikipedia article: "For fixed-wing aircraft, ground effect is the reduced aerodynamic drag that an aircraft's wings generate when they are close to a fixed surface.[1] When landing, ground effect can give the pilot the feeling that the aircraft is "floating". When taking off, ground effect may temporarily reduce the stall speed. The pilot can then fly just above the runway while the aircraft accelerates in ground effect until a safe climb speed is reached.[2]" Don't get me wrong those pilots are pretty skillfull but physic helps while flying close above the ground. Here is a presentation from a glider pilot about ground effect. ua-cam.com/video/xTUkwP4noGY/v-deo.html
Great video. In 96 and 97 when I was fighting wildfires in Oregon it was the coolest thing ever to watch the pilot planes lead the water tankers in and watch them drop water,etc on the fire below the ridge my crew and I were on or across the side of the mountain near by. Even cooler when you're 50 feet away from a 2 acre pond and have a Chinooke helicopter drop a bucket down to collect water while hovering 75 ft above.
these planes are manufactured in canada in france they are being known as "CANADAIR" and they do a wonderful job lots of fires in the summer in the south of france thanks 4 sharing : )
Nah, it won't change the water level much. Why? Because it's an island, surrounded by water. Big water. Ocean water. And that ocean is really really wet, one of the wettest we've ever seen, from a standpoint of water.
remember camping at a little place called Grimond in the saint Tropez bay in the 90s, watching these guys do this a couple of times a week. a few years after we were there the neighbouring town of saint Rafael was burned down...a number of people sadly died. these brave pilots flew round the clock and helped to contain the fire. Great guys.
Old video i know, but whats amazing about this is: 1) How fast they can fully reload their tanks. 2) How skilled those pilots have to be to land at speed, continue at speed, and take off again, at speed (and heavier) without crashing. 3) You can tell their now full of water because of how more 'gentle' they are with the aircraft after taking off again. They practically dive-bombed the beach to fill up, but after getting full of sloshing liquid, they have the skill to be 'easy on the stick' to keep their sloshing loads from over-balancing their aircraft.
1) about only 12 s 2) they very skilled!!! i think they are one of the best pilots in the world... I saw them often in Sardinia bec of fires and they flew through our valley and we live at 170 msl and they were "under us" 3) Climb speed about 7 m/s or 23 fpm fully loaded.
A very recent change. Viking headquartered at Victoria International, however there is no space available there for manufacture of that large of an air frame. Production will occur in Calgary.
Wrong. The CL-415 has it's roots in the trail blazing Canadian bush plane designs. The only things the PBY shares are certain design traits - high mount engines and wing tip floats.
Outstanding video! Think about the pilot skills: he's got to proceed to intaking some water with a FOUR ship formation, in a busy, crowded sea port, with a little bit of waves and movements in all directions, and manage his and his wingmen's fatigue from fighting fires all day long... That is truly one of the most beautiful jobs in the world!
Sometimes I dream of those times when youtube videos were having titles that explained exactly what the video was about. Nothing less and nothing more. Good old times.
@@lacroix9407 I'm kinda late but I live near s dam in Spain and those guys are scary when they fly 30m over your head coming from the treelines. I love those planes so much
Yeah but the ship can't fly and is only filled with contrived white folk pretending to be rich with their tiny cabin room cruise they could barely afford so it's useless.
Nice catch. Canadian designed _Canadair/Bombardier CL-415_ water bombers in action. Can't say I've ever seen four do a load up pass at the same time. Very nice catch indeed.
Best thing I learned from this video is to not wait to Pan the shot till the last plane but to Pan the shot as soon as the closest most active and interesting planes go by
Some fun factoids about the Canadair CL-415: In the 15-20 seconds that they are scooping, they fill up with 6,000L of water, and as 1L of water = 1 KG of weight, that's 6 tonnes of water... in 15-20 seconds. They also drop just under takeoff speed while scooping, so to get airborne again, this time 6 tonnes heavier (the planes are already 13.5 tonnes dry, about 15-16 tonnes wet), they use ground effects to lift them up. You can see this with the fourth bomber. He finishes his scoop around 1:25 and pitches his nose ever so slightly up. At 1:30, you can see the wings catch the ground effect, which is the compression of air, however slight, under the wings because there is a "solid" surface below it and it creates a high pressure push upwards. He gains speed in the ground effect, which you can see with the way the water is being pushed outwards under the wings, and once he is above the 150 KPH needed for sustained lift at 1:45, he pitches up and heads off to fight a fire :)
@@BasementEngineer I think you misunderstood the dry/wet differentiation. A "Dry" aircraft is just the airframe and internal components. A "wet" aircraft is the airframe, internal components, and all fluids (hydraulic, engine oil, fuel, et al) onboard. So realistically, they are closer to 20 to 21 tonnes with a full scoop
That has been going on in Montana this summer, trying to put out fires. The planes and helicopters were filling up with water at our reservoir. I'm sure many other places have needed this too.
OMG! That is awesome and beautiful! Interesting part is there's a purposeful reason as to why the last plane lags behind so far. Its an alignment issue for dropping the water. Pretty neat deal
The real irony is that your comment was made on some type of device whose construction is one of the reasons those planes are needed, most likely powered by another reason those planes are needed.. At least the guy on the cruise ship isn't virtue signalling.
Thank you for not adding music or talking through this excellent video. So many youtubers feel the need to make it about them--glad you're not one of them!
Lachausis I love it when people call me a libtard, it gives me a great perspective on your level maturity which tells me whether or not I should talk to you like a little kid or like an adult
@@Lachausis Cute, coming from precisely the kind of dolt we have to thank for for COVID getting worse. But yeah, keep calling precisely the kind of people "-tards" who are doing everything to keep your sorry, useless arse alive, all while you're proud of culling your own elders and call it "patriotism" to get as many of your countrymen six feet under as you can possibly arrange. And all that under a video set in France. But given your general lack of education, we'll just assume you're uneducated enough to believe "Villefranche-sur-Mer" is some strange place in Louisiana or wherever.
Fantastic pilot skill to handle the aircraft to stay on course and at speed as it fills with water and takes on massive extra weight which would create lots of drag.
It wasn't a drill I live close to this area and we experienced massive forest fires during that period of time All fires were instinguised pretty quickly and noone was hurt thanks to those guys
Fun fact : planes have an alarms going off when you're getting close to a stall (not enough airspeed to keep enough lift on your wings to stay airborne). The speed you need to be at to fill those planes is lower than that alarm treshold. So the whole time they are on the water, their alarm is going off telling them they are about to stall and crash. It's one of the most important tool to deal with forest fire, but requires so much skills that the main limitations is pilot's availability.
These planes are specifically designed to use the ground effect. For smaller wingtip vortices, more lift etc. for when they refuel their water tanks at high speed in water. I find it hard to believe that a plane whose whole existence is to fly fast near the waterlevel has alarms going off saying its going to crash everytime
My childhood yearly holiday destination. 👍🏼 Hope I can go once more before passing. It was just such a gorgeous place back in the late 70’s - ti end 80’s
@@rambalda1690 I was gonna ask how is there enough pressure to fill up this quickly, and then I remembered that half the reason planes go air is pressure.
John Trustworthy In that case the pressure is due to the speed of the waterbomber on the water. It’s water pressure and velocity here, but more or less same principle. Just as extending your hand out of the window in a moving car - you feel air pressure, because of the velocity of the air flow - they extend the scoop out of the bottom of the hull, the forward motion does the rest.
I'm amazed. Someone who not only shoots horizontally but also knows to hold the shot. Well done.
Must have had a spotter to tell him that there was a fourth plane. I didn't notice it.
Yes. Excellent camera work.
and not zooming 500% in
Listen to the maturity in the voice, that's not somone from the instagram generation, but someone for who 4:3 and 16:9 and Widescreen are normal.
But then uploads only in 720p.
I've seen one filling up, but 4 at the same time? fantastic clip.
*hear, hear
UA-cam has everything you can imagine now.
They are military so they fly as a flight with a flight leader.
They could drop more water in the same amount of time if they flew as individuals but that would offend the military chain of command.
Tom Hare It is also fire fighting tactics, the same amount of water at the same time increases cooling
they are civilians
Well done to the camera operator for holding the shot for last bomber, then panning with it & holding the shot. As a professional cam-op I appreciate it.
Very satisfying video. No vertical. No waggling around. Simple and consistent till the end. Congrats!
Amazing what god can create to save us.
Still one of Canada's greatest international firefighting contributions, the Canadair CL-415. Four of them in formation fill up = awesome :D
Yeah, this is in Greece, we bought a lot of Canadairs in order to preserve our environment. Although Turks admitted putting the fire.
@@hermespsychopompos8267 It's not in Greece. The video said Villefranche-sur-mer (and i can confirm i live not far away so i know how this city look) it's in France :)
@@hermespsychopompos8267Typical greek idiot (and I'm greek)
Might be Greece, don't know, apparently not. But those are french owned planew, and that IS for sure...
@@thakrak its in vilefranche sur mer, near nice in france
Just 80 years ago hearing that sound while standing on a ship and the word „bombers“ in the title wouldn’t have been that pleasant
STUKA JU87 SIRENS
Crazy that Catalina's were used in the war and some are still used as water bombers to this day.
man that's crazy ww2 is 80years ago now.. everytime i think its 2010 not 2020
Ever heard of pearl harbor
@@f5ght436 looks more like four topedo bombers lining up for a run on a battleship.
my dad flew fighters for years and now he flies for united. he told me once those guys make quite good money and the level of skill and expertise to get into flying something like that is very high. super cool planes, those pilots do important work no doubt
Has he ever thought about flying for them?
@@sorryforthings72 nah i don't think so, he's a 737 instructor now with united and he likes it. he might've considered it in the past but he went the commercial route
I'll tell you what, I bet where you live they make good money but in France, where this video was shot, I'm pretty sure they make 24k a year. Sad.
@@sorryforthings72 Most of those pilots are ex-fighter pilots, and the job is high risk.
@@michaeldowson6988 Yes, you're right. In France, they typically come from either the French Air & Space Force, or the Navy, and I believe that they must have logged in a minimum of 3000 flight hours and 12 years of experience before applying. Also, their average start salary is around €2200/month (gross). That's less than 30k per year for a maximum of 8h/day of work in the peak season... and a maximum of risks, day in, day out!
Total respect to the pilots the skill that takes.
Brilliant video
Wow ... think of how skilfull the pilot must be considering the drag on the aircraft as it fills and the huge change in weight distribution as the tanks fill ...
u just need powwa. more powwa
@@frankstain9791 MO POWA AND HRSPRS
There is something called "ground effect" when you fly close to the ground or the water. The plane stabilizes itself because the air kind of gets compressed under the wings. I copy a small part of the wikipedia article:
"For fixed-wing aircraft, ground effect is the reduced aerodynamic drag that an aircraft's wings generate when they are close to a fixed surface.[1] When landing, ground effect can give the pilot the feeling that the aircraft is "floating". When taking off, ground effect may temporarily reduce the stall speed. The pilot can then fly just above the runway while the aircraft accelerates in ground effect until a safe climb speed is reached.[2]"
Don't get me wrong those pilots are pretty skillfull but physic helps while flying close above the ground.
Here is a presentation from a glider pilot about ground effect.
ua-cam.com/video/xTUkwP4noGY/v-deo.html
Lots of fautomated and computer controlled systems helping the pilot, but still harder than being a normal pilot
Exactly what I was thinking!!!!
To see these Canadair CL-415 at work is amazing. Best water bombers in the world.🇨🇦
Next to the Martin Mars.
@@Dbodell8000… Martin Mars were pretty great but they haven’t done any fire fighting in years and the last one is headed to a museum.
@@T410ce Yes your correct. Sadly their water bomber days have ended but Hawaii Mars has been saved let’s hope Phillipine Mars will also be saved.
Great video. In 96 and 97 when I was fighting wildfires in Oregon it was the coolest thing ever to watch the pilot planes lead the water tankers in and watch them drop water,etc on the fire below the ridge my crew and I were on or across the side of the mountain near by. Even cooler when you're 50 feet away from a 2 acre pond and have a Chinooke helicopter drop a bucket down to collect water while hovering 75 ft above.
These fire fighting planes are an awesome combination of engineering and piloting skills
these planes are manufactured in canada in france they are being known as "CANADAIR" and they do a wonderful job lots of fires in the summer in the south of france thanks 4 sharing : )
Now the cruise ship is gonna get stuck on a sandbar.
Lol underappreciated comment
Richard Speir 👍🏼😂👍🏼
Nah, it won't change the water level much. Why?
Because it's an island, surrounded by water. Big water. Ocean water.
And that ocean is really really wet, one of the wettest we've ever seen, from a standpoint of water.
@@ahgflyguy r/woooooooosh
Did not the guy notice the extreme well telegraph Ed scarcasm? I'd have to agree with the Whoooooosh observation!
You hit the airplane geek lottery with this one. 4 at the same time?? Amazing
I saw a you tube clip like this one that there were 7 CL415'S taking on water 💧
as a firefighter, i would be the happiest man in the world if had the chance to witness this.
remember camping at a little place called Grimond in the saint Tropez bay in the 90s, watching these guys do this a couple of times a week. a few years after we were there the neighbouring town of saint Rafael was burned down...a number of people sadly died. these brave pilots flew round the clock and helped to contain the fire. Great guys.
You mean Grimaud :-)
Amazing entertainment for cruise liner passengers
Fuck cruise line passengers.
@@Spookie127806 lmao
That's actually more entertaining to watch than some of the shit they put for "entertainment"...... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
lol funny fire
i'm living in Nice at 10km of Villenfranche-sur-mer and it was not entertainment
That's just amazing to watch.
The last plane: “Wait for me guys!! I’m coming!”
The individual who shot this did an amazing job, following the last one through the whole process was a great ending.
Thanks for sharing this awesome footage ❤ from Atlantic Canada ❤
Old video i know, but whats amazing about this is:
1) How fast they can fully reload their tanks.
2) How skilled those pilots have to be to land at speed, continue at speed, and take off again, at speed (and heavier) without crashing.
3) You can tell their now full of water because of how more 'gentle' they are with the aircraft after taking off again.
They practically dive-bombed the beach to fill up, but after getting full of sloshing liquid, they have the skill to be 'easy on the stick' to keep their sloshing loads from over-balancing their aircraft.
1) about only 12 s
2) they very skilled!!! i think they are one of the best pilots in the world...
I saw them often in Sardinia bec of fires and they flew through our valley and we live at 170 msl and they were "under us"
3) Climb speed about 7 m/s or 23 fpm fully loaded.
Do they not have baffles inside the tank?
Canadian designed and built CL-415's by Bombardier.
no not anymore can you say Viking air
A very recent change. Viking headquartered at Victoria International, however there is no space available there for manufacture of that large of an air frame. Production will occur in Calgary.
Vlql Vlql cest nos taxes qui volent comme ça ! 😂
Not really. It's a variation of the American PBY Catalina.
Wrong. The CL-415 has it's roots in the trail blazing Canadian bush plane designs. The only things the PBY shares are certain design traits - high mount engines and wing tip floats.
Love those aircraft, good old Canadian engineering right there.
Got to love the crewman in the wingbridge. Guy has to be loving the chance to see that from there.
Now those are some badass heroes right there! Imagine being that cool.
This is one of the best clips I've ever seen on YT. Bird's eye view and all! Thanks for sharing
Outstanding video! Think about the pilot skills: he's got to proceed to intaking some water with a FOUR ship formation, in a busy, crowded sea port, with a little bit of waves and movements in all directions, and manage his and his wingmen's fatigue from fighting fires all day long... That is truly one of the most beautiful jobs in the world!
That was awesome, thx for the really good camera work, great video!
a whole flight of them reffilling is an awesome sight. Thanks so much for sharing.
No fires were reported, but its rumored the fire department had a nice panfish dinner.
The Chief needed his new pool filled.
Sometimes I dream of those times when youtube videos were having titles that explained exactly what the video was about. Nothing less and nothing more. Good old times.
240p or clickbait. Which is worse?
The descent the fourth one did was pretty impressive!
They look so small when compared to the ship.
Because they are.
No, like they be looking like some RC planes haha.
@@lacroix9407 I'm kinda late but I live near s dam in Spain and those guys are scary when they fly 30m over your head coming from the treelines. I love those planes so much
Yeah but the ship can't fly and is only filled with contrived white folk pretending to be rich with their tiny cabin room cruise they could barely afford so it's useless.
Four at the same time is rather rare. You captured a once-in-a-lifetime video there.
Four CL-415s -- a beautiful sight!
Nice Catch! Four of them at a Time!
Awesome sight, great video! Lucky to those planes in action.
Its amazing these planes can take on water like this without nose diving into it from the drag of taking in the water.
Nice catch. Canadian designed _Canadair/Bombardier CL-415_ water bombers in action. Can't say I've ever seen four do a load up pass at the same time. Very nice catch indeed.
I've seen 8. Mallorca. 2014. Palma Bay.
Those are the hell of incredible performance pilots to many at the same time.
I live nearby. They practise this regularly in case of a forest fire, which unfotunately happens nearly every year in the area.
Best thing I learned from this video is to not wait to Pan the shot till the last plane but to Pan the shot as soon as the closest most active and interesting planes go by
Canadian ingenuity at work…🇨🇦
Did anybody else click thinking what's the biggie but is now very impressed? Way cool.
Welcome to France, amazing view, luxury boats, and random planes on the sea
Minoute ferme ta gueule
Why so much hate
@@altutaravu3114 Someone forgot their meds.
Some fun factoids about the Canadair CL-415: In the 15-20 seconds that they are scooping, they fill up with 6,000L of water, and as 1L of water = 1 KG of weight, that's 6 tonnes of water... in 15-20 seconds. They also drop just under takeoff speed while scooping, so to get airborne again, this time 6 tonnes heavier (the planes are already 13.5 tonnes dry, about 15-16 tonnes wet), they use ground effects to lift them up.
You can see this with the fourth bomber. He finishes his scoop around 1:25 and pitches his nose ever so slightly up. At 1:30, you can see the wings catch the ground effect, which is the compression of air, however slight, under the wings because there is a "solid" surface below it and it creates a high pressure push upwards. He gains speed in the ground effect, which you can see with the way the water is being pushed outwards under the wings, and once he is above the 150 KPH needed for sustained lift at 1:45, he pitches up and heads off to fight a fire :)
Well, according to Hoyle, 13.5 tonnes dry plus 6 tonnes water makes 19.5 tonnes take-off weight. Big difference from 15 to 16 tonnes you stated.
@@BasementEngineer I think you misunderstood the dry/wet differentiation. A "Dry" aircraft is just the airframe and internal components. A "wet" aircraft is the airframe, internal components, and all fluids (hydraulic, engine oil, fuel, et al) onboard. So realistically, they are closer to 20 to 21 tonnes with a full scoop
@@vagabond142 Thanks for your clarification!
Amazing showcase of the pilots skills!
Great video no music level camera angle thanks for the upload as for the firefighters/pilots great work and looking good doing it
I would proudly buy all of those aircrew several beers.
That has been going on in Montana this summer, trying to put out fires. The planes and helicopters were filling up with water at our reservoir. I'm sure many other places have needed this too.
These pilots and crew are the real heroes.
Well I have seen some exciting sights from a cruise liner but this one takes the prize. I should love to have been there. Well filmed thank you.
imagine these pilots commanding a commercial airliner, which has to do emergency landing on water...
thinking "my time to shine!"
Proud of Canadians helping neighbors in need ❤
This just inspired me to chug a whole thing of water
The only reason I fell in love with these planes was because I used to watch TaleSpin, and Baloo's plane was called the SeaDuck with turbo engines
Villefranche-sur-mer bay. We are overlooking the bay right now. Fires in the hills but no planes coming in for water here.
Villefranche is lovely, been there a couple times.
I thought so too.....Cap ferrat on the right hand side
OMG! That is awesome and beautiful! Interesting part is there's a purposeful reason as to why the last plane lags behind so far. Its an alignment issue for dropping the water. Pretty neat deal
How ironic. Guess the person who filmed this was like "wow so cool", but the whole cruise liner is one reason why those planes are needed
The real irony is that your comment was made on some type of device whose construction is one of the reasons those planes are needed, most likely powered by another reason those planes are needed..
At least the guy on the cruise ship isn't virtue signalling.
@@evananderson1455 🤦♂️
@@BR14Nx Yeah, that's about the type of response I expected.
best camera work I have seen for a while!! thanks for the great video.
Awesome Video !!!!! Thank You Firefighters for risking your lives to make sure we are safe....!!!!!
Thank you for not adding music or talking through this excellent video. So many youtubers feel the need to make it about them--glad you're not one of them!
Fantastic footage, I've only seen the helicopters filling their buckets from the San Diego river once...everything burns here in Santa Ana season.
I hope that you have not lost your property to the Bush fires
The job these flying heroes does is incredible!
Imagine the fishes that probably get scooped up by one of them just to later get tossed into wildfires
@Waldel Martell Not the ones the birds eat
There's probably very few that remain anywhere near the surface of the water simply due to the sound from the planes coming scaring them off.
@@AndrewDW44 You're a moron, birds can also dive a bit.
@Alexander Novan You should educate yourself better.
I'm sure the scoops have filters
Holy shit... I'm used to see one often, but 4 one after another? That's amazing.
Anyone else thinking of Disneys Talespin when watching this?
That was a treat. Thanks for posting.
Soo cool! I get goosebumps watching 👍
Very nicely done, you let three planes pass and only followed the fourth and last when it went by. Nothing missed.
Wait there are cruise ships again?
Oh, 2015
Pre-covid. Better times. Libtards have gotten only worse, along with covid.
Lachausis I love it when people call me a libtard, it gives me a great perspective on your level maturity which tells me whether or not I should talk to you like a little kid or like an adult
Anything that looks normal is probably not from 2020
@@Lachausis
Cute, coming from precisely the kind of dolt we have to thank for for COVID getting worse. But yeah, keep calling precisely the kind of people "-tards" who are doing everything to keep your sorry, useless arse alive, all while you're proud of culling your own elders and call it "patriotism" to get as many of your countrymen six feet under as you can possibly arrange.
And all that under a video set in France. But given your general lack of education, we'll just assume you're uneducated enough to believe "Villefranche-sur-Mer" is some strange place in Louisiana or wherever.
Few years ago I watched a couple of them put out a fire in Croatia. Really cool to see!
Incredible! What a show!!
Someplace somewhere was about to get very wet. Great vid, thanks.
That remind me of Disney's Talespin planes
You get water where you can. This is great flying.
the 4th one: HEY WAIT FOR ME
Cricket I’ve never seen you so excited in ages
Crickey
Who in their right mind would give this a thumbs down?
A pyromaniac? :-)
may be a psycho in his right mind
Canadian Vikingair CL415 Superscooper, the best Forest Firefighting plane in the world. Faster than fire.
Wait....they can refill while moving? Is this salty water or sweet water?
Canada's firefighting planes, these are Canadair CL-415's. Best water bomber in the world.
I would like to see a Hercules modified for the same routine, even if it was in the FS
This video never gets old, it would be cool if there was like 30 of them sending a river on those fires
"This enraged the captain, who punished them severely."
I'm so glad you didn't move the camera after the first one had just passed. Very nice cameramanship!!
that would be a cool thing to see in real life !
Fantastic pilot skill to handle the aircraft to stay on course and at speed as it fills with water and takes on massive extra weight which would create lots of drag.
so that's how chemtrail planes are refilled ! :)
US AirForce: We got the best pilost in the world!
Any canadair firefighter: lol supdawg!
Was this a drill or were they fire fighting?
I don't think it was a drill they were flying for at least 3 hours that day
tony0781 whatever it was, this was fascinating. Thanks for sharing!
It wasn't a drill
I live close to this area and we experienced massive forest fires during that period of time
All fires were instinguised pretty quickly and noone was hurt thanks to those guys
Charlie Boy+
Looked like 4 yellow planes skimming on a lake.
njden where? Is it as bad as california? We live in hell over here
WOW! What a magnificent sight! Great video, thanks for sharing :)))
I'd love to be a part of the crew on one of those
So did you pursue your dream and become a crew member on a FF plane?
Great catch !
And next clip? Washing the cruise liner ;)
Fun fact : planes have an alarms going off when you're getting close to a stall (not enough airspeed to keep enough lift on your wings to stay airborne). The speed you need to be at to fill those planes is lower than that alarm treshold. So the whole time they are on the water, their alarm is going off telling them they are about to stall and crash.
It's one of the most important tool to deal with forest fire, but requires so much skills that the main limitations is pilot's availability.
These planes are specifically designed to use the ground effect. For smaller wingtip vortices, more lift etc. for when they refuel their water tanks at high speed in water. I find it hard to believe that a plane whose whole existence is to fly fast near the waterlevel has alarms going off saying its going to crash everytime
I just watched a video of the Super Scooper refueling its water from the cockpit. No alarm. I was right, and you're a liar
Hardly a sight more beautiful than that. Look at my profile picture you'll understand
My childhood yearly holiday destination. 👍🏼 Hope I can go once more before passing. It was just such a gorgeous place back in the late 70’s - ti end 80’s
Wait, they actually scoop up water? So the riddle with the drowned scuba diver in the burnt forest is actually real?
The scoop opening is really small. About the size or smaller than a shoe box.
So the riddle is as far from truth as it can be.
@@rambalda1690 I was gonna ask how is there enough pressure to fill up this quickly, and then I remembered that half the reason planes go air is pressure.
John Trustworthy In that case the pressure is due to the speed of the waterbomber on the water. It’s water pressure and velocity here, but more or less same principle. Just as extending your hand out of the window in a moving car - you feel air pressure, because of the velocity of the air flow - they extend the scoop out of the bottom of the hull, the forward motion does the rest.
Mythbusters did that one years ago. They couldnt find any way possible that it could happen, even with the choppers with suction devices.