Fire Boss incident

Loading...

Sign in or sign up now!
Alert icon
Upgrade to the latest Flash Player for improved playback performance. Upgrade now or more info.
350,676
Loading...
Alert icon
Sign in or sign up now!
Alert icon

Uploaded by on Jun 28, 2008

L'incident de l'hydravion Fire Boss lors du 12ème Rassemblement International d'hydravions de Biscarrosse du 1er au 4 mai 2008.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

License:

Standard YouTube License

  • likes, 28 dislikes

Link to this comment:

Share to:

Top Comments

  • He is an amazing pilot for continuing to make power runs into water until the turbine is shock cooled and stressed out and the propeller has taken a a total shit kicking. Solid decision making there. Amazing skills

  • They fish rather aggressively over there

see all

All Comments (275)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • @matrix49A s..... to catch a few lousy carp.

  • @RCAHEDS1992 One of the fundamental rules of flight [and these AT802s are sensitive to this]is calculation of weight distribution. Now if you think your floats may be leaking you would NEVER got to full throttle as

    1- you dont know if you are still below MTOW

    2- acceleration will force water to trailing edge of float making it impossible to 'step' the aircraft.

    Pilot should have shutdown engine when it first struck the water at 0:20 seconds. That is the correct procedure.

  • I don't quite understand what happened here. Were the floats full of water and he was trying to take off again??

  • @VICEZED Thanks, man! I appreciate that.

  • @RCAHEDS1992

    i was about to say that but u got that covered. well said

  • jeeeeeeeeez.. needs a major overhaul now... theres 80 grand...

  • I feel bad for the plane.

  • You can't shock cool a jet engine....

  • The floats...weren't...

Loading...
Alert icon
0 / 00Unsaved Playlist Return to active list
    1. Your queue is empty. Add videos to your queue using this button:
      or sign in to load a different list.
    Loading...Loading...Saving...
    • Clear all videos from this list
    • Learn more