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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 01:18 PM Jul 2013

Water bomber

The old company, Bombardier Aerospace, makes these. They don’t ‘motor around” to fill the tanks---they touch down at approach speed, open the fill scoops, add lots of power, and the tanks fill in seconds. There’s one scene in the film where you can see the two tank level gauges rapidly go up. The other neat thing is watching the magnitude of the flight control inputs, especially aileron, as they are maneuvering down low---sometimes the pilot is literally going stop to stop. Real flying!

Very, very cool.......

http://player.vimeo.com/video/48642618

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Water bomber (Original Post) Playinghardball Jul 2013 OP
That would be intense liberal N proud Jul 2013 #1
That's some amazing flying. NV Whino Jul 2013 #2
That is some E ticket flying. denbot Jul 2013 #3
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