Camp Pendleton Fire Planes CL-145 Superscooper water bombers

[anmoose]

Those planes look like a crash waiting to happen. I can't imagine how you could scoop water out of the ocean like that and NOT lose all of your airspeed and stall out. That's gotta be REALLY tricky.

[NotaTrollTravlin]

make sure you check out "H.A.F Canadair CL-415 Tribute (R.I.P BROTHERS)" the video has some close up shots of the plane.

[anmoose]

Thanks for the link, Nota! It does make a lot more sense seeing that they're amphibians. They can LAND on the water. Still, what they're doing is a difficult and sometimes dangerous job.

[NotaTrollTravlin]

You're welcome, I admire their skill- Watching the news (right now) it looks like they maybe needed again in So.Calf.

There are more fires.

[realnutty01]

Great camera angle on them landing in the sea, looked a bit like it was playing skippers lol.

[NotaTrollTravlin]

A few times they flew right over me standing on the beach- it was hard to see if they were in the shot because of glare(so it was luck.. not skill that got the camera angles LOL)

[tommy30507]

That looks MIGHTY DANGEROUS...and SCARY!!!!!

[NotaTrollTravlin]

On the news it said that it was the first time that they had been used. I'm glad I was there to watch. It must be very Scary to fly into the ocean to scoop up water.