DC-10 Fire Bomber Test Drop

[Wellsy411]

I know its not the same as volcanic ash, not by a long shot, but whats the story with the ash/smoke/embers, and the jet engines?

[enginerelay]

I L ike the woman who says SHIIIIT! I'd be thinking the same thing,Thats awesome.

[alfsrc]

Nice Vid -thanks for sharing.

[Madchimp412]

That is some gutsy flying. Low level flying in a plane of that size would be hard enough, but to then being buffeted by the rising smoke and heat from a fire... One word - WOW!!

@FireMonty - Yes, he is. Not in the same way as some of us though, but he is still fighting fires...

@eveningniteshade - A plane flying at ~400km/h is NOT going to fly 5-10 foot above the water 'scooping' water... Soon as the scoop hit the water the plane would nose dive into the water.

[xprettyflyx]

Boringggg

[eveningniteshade]

how does it pick up water?

If it has a scoop it could scoop up sorklers and dolphins and stuff.

[DISHWASHERANDDRYER]

it lands at Avalon taxis up to a water bladder full of water or the other stuff and then is pumped into the bottom of the aircraft, taking all of 20 minutes!

[DISHWASHERANDDRYER]

Anyone know when the tanker is going to do another test run and dump?

[FireMonty]

And now I suppose the pilot thinks he really a firefighter!

[TimSAksu]

@FireMonty he is.

[Cally460]

Mate thats brilliant! Oh how I would love to be let loose by CASA to fly that thing!!

[buckpd]

Good to know there is something apart from the sky cranes that will drop copius amount of retardent.

[topfireman]

talk about the ultimate  water bomb lol

[PowertoInfinity]

Pertty cool but how do re stock it with water

[SnoopReddogg]

Drop like it's hot Captn Mac

[myhome369]

thats pretty wiked. was that for a real for or not??

[FireMonty]

That was for real