Amazing story

Just like firemen they are batshit crazy in the best possible way I mean who runs to the fire when your whole mind and body wants to run from the fire Heroes all

@@jillthompson1248 Wonder how many of these S-2 pilots flew them in the Navy.

Hahahaha!

You did this as your job??? Absolutely INCREDIBLE

​@@Rickbone1055An vip 😮 lol me m

I first saw aerial firefighting in 1961 when I moved to SoCal from the Midwest. Watched B-17s drop purple Borate on a chaparral. Brush fire near my home. They stopped using Borax-based retardant because it caused eye damage to firefighters on the ground and switched to Phos-Check.

Back then , they thought they would never be able to use jets because they couldn’t go slow enough. Things changed! (Back then, fire season used to end by December instead of running all year long, too).

Idiotic comment

These fire pilots are rock stars!

What was the name of the place

@@sharryshehzadi8114 Angwin

You could volunteer at the Base Camp, help feeding the fire fighters and pilots. I fought many fires, and the volunteers made life a little less stressing.

My mind is blown

Just don't give them old aircraft with wings folding up after a run. I recently watched a report on how these aircraft are not well maintained. It is already a very dangerous activity. Yes, some pilots are excellent, but others lack in specific training.

It was a very hard day when the three men from Coulson crashed helping Rural Fire Services in NSW fighting the huge bush fires we had in Australia. We can never thank them enough.

And ATC

Yes..I flew Sailplanes out of Calistoga..and you are correct.

It's not water.

You are correct. It was sold and is being converted to a freighter I believe.

The 747 was refused a contract and now is trying to make a living another way. A political hit job????????

@@DWBurns are you saying it was "too effective" in putting out those "climate change" fires? 🙄

Sold and how stupid is that. Now more than ever we need it.

Alternative owns the giant 747 world’s biggest fire fighting plane because it wasn’t making enough money and the government contracts weren’t renewed because of that so governor needs to pony up some cash and renew the contract so hopefully you can get this under control and get in there and clear the undergrowth that fuels these things. It’s a damn shame that a plane like that could make a difference but is on the ground due to money yet our government wants to blow trillions on stupid shit

Full power high Drag

Or the 747 global supertanker in here.

A C-5 or B-52 for low level fire fighting That would be sumthin' to see. And scary as hell.

They do use a program called MAFFS which uses specially equipped C-130's.

What is the 747 chop liver? It carries 19,000 gallons of water or fire retarded. Unfortunately it was sold. Out of the country. Best fire plane ever.

@@wyomingadventures not sold grounded due to lack of money government contracts didn’t pay enough

INSTEAD OF LOADING WHAT COULD MAKE IT RAIN: Cloud seeding, the main type of intentional weather modification, began in the late 1940s. The basic idea was to use aircraft or rockets to inject silver iodide or another substance into the atmosphere to mimic ice nuclei. The amount of rain or snow a cloud can produce depends on a balance between the number of ice nuclei inside it and the amount of water available to grow around those nuclei. Clouds often lack naturally occurring ice nuclei, so injecting them with silver iodide particles (which are very similar in structure to ice) increases the number of nuclei. This makes the clouds more efficient at generating ice crystals that either fall as snowflakes or melt to produce raindrops, depending on temperatures in and beneath the cloud. Cloud seeding is also used to disperse fog banks near some airports. A more recent cloud-seeding technique is to use hygroscopic (water-attracting) particles such as potassium/sodium chloride to provide "seeds" for large droplets that fall more quickly, colliding with smaller droplets on the way and accelerating rainfall development.

@@jamesbuchanin4558 but I see no clouds If there were clouds then yes they should be all over that. You seem knowledgeable so you know ho they could possibly make clouds to seed Because yes a good dose of rain would go along way to stop this maybe a nice moderate shower that would last for a few days going from moderate to light and back again so it wouldn’t (hopefully) flood or flash flood or mudslide although mudslide would terminate any fire it came across Although it is pretty cool watching them

Fine. We'll take ten.

@@darrellcook8253 apparently it was enacted by President Donald Trump when they picked up the new airplanes for Air Force 1 they also picked up several other aircraft that were due for scrap instead they were supposed to be made into firefighting aircraft

Now see when I heard that Donald Trump was in office however Joe Biden said that none of us know what Real Americans are even know that those Real Americans are saving countless lives by fighting wildfires every single day and you guys deserve the best equipment that are is and this idiot won't help you guys out so I'm sorry but you probably won't get those airplanes

I think its a heck of a lot cheaper then a forest fire invading a town.

This use of taxes gets no beef from me.

18,000 gallons

@@Kyle-jn7or Thanks for reply Kyle :) Thats about 70 ish ton? . Seems a light load for such a big aircraft. They wouldnt need full fuel tanks , so could carry the fuel weight as fire suppressant mabee. Dont know why our govt wont use our tax dollars to purchase a handfull of these. They sure waste enough of it on useless crap.

@@colb9916 The onboard tanks, pumps, etc weigh quite a bit. Read more about it here... "Technology - Global Supertanker" globalsupertanker.biz/technology-2/

@@Kyle-jn7or Yeah, there is more than just the liquid weight.. Wasnt sure on the loaded cargo/overall lift capacity of the 747 :) Even that 18k gallons is a lot more than the choppers and DC10's etc that we get on loan from Canada and others. Such a huge amount of ground that needs to be covered, and no where near enough airborn fighting capacity :((

It's 19,000. There's videos about the global super tanker.

Didn’t retire was grounded due to not making enough money if government payed more it would be there making a difference saving wildlife human life life in general

@@jillthompson1248 It was retired due to how expensive it was, and not enough funding, was stripped of its fire fighting equipment and is now a cargo plane.

@@alexanderhedglin337 don’t know I looked it up looked up the company that owns the plane and that’s what they said

@@jillthompson1248 Just looked at the official website, and it shows a returning to service in 2022. So I don’t know if they are going refit the fire equipment in 944 or just get a new plane. However at the time of the original post it was decommissioned.

when are they going to use airbus 380 to kill the insects

They don’t have a md11 just a dc10

P-2 Neptune and P-3 Orion are both used as mud bombers, I'm not sure how to tell them apart. Not sure what the lead plane (ASM) that pops smoke at 17:09. It usually is a King Air 90 or 200 but this one almost looked like an Air Tractor AT-802 SEAT

I looked it up, it appears to be a OV-10A Bronco Tactical Air Supervision

P3 Orion

Unfortunately the 747 Global Super Tanker was retired this year.

Probably safer to sling them low for filling/dumping and more stable in flight

stops the bucket from rotating in the spiral down wash and also helps the air flow past for more lift a compromise is obtained to rope length from the above

Stupid comment. What are you against Forrest? If you cut all the trees down what's going to stop flash flooding. Where are animals going to live? Really do you want me to continue? There's not much sense in your comment. Unless you are from Asia and you want to kill everything.

C'est un Grumman Tracker, le Neptune ça fait longtemps qu'il ne vole plus.