Fire Bombers 747 VLAT and others in dramatic air footage
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- Dramatic footage of fire fighting with 747 air tankers and other aircraft on th e #glassfire in Napa County CA, Sept/Oct 2020. VLAT very-large-air-tanker fire bombing footage and other aircraft including helicopters above portions of Napa Valley wine country and nearby mountains. The Glass Fire burned over 67,000 acres and destroyed over 600 residences in Napa and Sonoma County.
this is one of the very best uses of tax dollars
I was a police officer for a small town with a crazy fire.
It was getting out of control and we were on standby to evacuate the city. The ENTIRE city. We had every fire department within 100 miles bring just about every truck they had.
While I was scanning the fire channel I heard "vlat inbound 2 mikes make ready" I had no idea what the fuck their language was but I saw all the fire fighters start cheering like it was ending credits scene from top gun. Then out of total unprofessionalism someone played "Boom" by POD over the fire channel.
No one was disappointed. Damn fine show of force
Amazing story
As impressive as the 747 is, the DC-10s' agility never ceases to amaze me. LAT and VLAT pilots are some of the most badass people in human history.
Strafing a fire, in the mountains, with smoke blocking your view- in a jumbo jet. These pilots must be made of titanium. Absolutely amazing.
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.
Cockpit warning: TERRAIN PROXIMITY. PULL UP. PULL UP.
Pilot: Nah! I can get a bit closer.
Hahahaha!
It was my pleasure to have worked with all these professionals , for all those years! Thank you all, and continued success !!!!! Love you all.
You did this as your job??? Absolutely INCREDIBLE
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Dropping nitrate based fire retardant in front of the fire as a fire break , it will also promote growth as a fertiliser
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).
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I can’t thank these guys enough for what they do for us.
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.
I’m sad about the fires, but what an awesome sight seeing these incredible fire crew and their beautiful aircraft at work! Thanks so much for this video and I’ll be sharing.
🙏🏼👍🏼💜🙏🏼
Whatever pilot is flying that 747 low altitude like that has balls of steel.
Really nice footage! I will never forget being here during the evacuation and watching all of this happen from my backyard. Thank you for capturing this on film.
What was the name of the place
@@sharryshehzadi8114 Angwin
Damn that DC-10 is just majestic
A huge thank you to the techs who keep up these aircraft! Amazing footage. From a P-3 Aircreqman and avionics tech.
INSANE!! These pilots must have an incredible set of HUGE BALS!!
These fire pilots are rock stars!
I know this is stating the obvious, but these pilots are very good. It's very impressive flying. It's also incredible to see what commercial airliners can do when unleashed. We are so used to seeing them being flown gently, for good reason with passengers on board, but it's awesome to see them pushed to the limit.
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.
Real shame about the fire but it's good to see the aircraft doing a great job thank you for the video thumbs up and shared.
I live in the McClellan air base area of north Highlands and I pray for the safety
of these aircraft and pilots when they fly in and out of their air based Headquarters.
Thank you pilots mechanics and other
ground crews.
GOD BLESS YOU.
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
A 747 is a long way from the DC-3’s that worked fires I was on in the ‘80’s!
Beautiful! I learned to fly Sailplanes out of Calistoga. I thought I recognized the "palisades" (vertical rock cliffs early on in the video). Excellent video!!!!
Amazing shots of the B747 and the DC-10, and the heroic flying of those pilots! Wow!
Excellent footage. It can be seen how a small plane marks the area to release the water. Thanks for sharing.
There are out going ports, they dump from. The super tanker dumps 19200 pounds.aircraft 912 carries around 13000 pounds.
Excellent Stuff! Many people don't realize just how rugged and steep Napa and Sonoma Counties can be. Not all just rolling hills and vineyards...
Yes..I flew Sailplanes out of Calistoga..and you are correct.
Amazing Team Work!!! WOW l am at a loss for word's, l don't know actually what the #1 word or sentences to describe all of you Firefighters men and women on "Land", in the "Air" and out in "Water" in Jesus name l pray for the hedge of protection for all of our wildlands, wild animals!!! Protect them under your wings and buckler. "Reward all of them to the most high" and keep them safe/strong and as allowed to pray before you start each day, and give thanks to you Angel's in a human disguise. In Jesus name Love And Support, From Tulare County, My daughter is a badass firefighter from Springville, California, Fire Dept. You Rock girl. Great videos. Be safe... Love, Mom
Beautiful birds of service. Thanks to all the crews that keep them running.
When the 747 comes thru and dumps his load, I BIT IT IS LOAD ON THE SURFACE, SAME WITH OTHER JETS. ALL THE AIRCRAFT ARE DOING A FANTASTIC JOB IN DROPPING FIRE RETARDANT WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE. I PRAY FOR THOSE FIGHTING=THESE FIRES WILL BE SAFE AND THINK THRU THEIR STEPS IT IS. ERY DANGEROUS OUT THEIR. BLESS YOU ALL! I don’t know all the makes, but I try.
i think most of the people didnt even realize how dangerous it is to fly like that.
15:06 the best shot
The planes with tailnumber40, 80,and there is one more watch them closely, they come on a turn and use the force of gravity to force the load out and hit the target almost every time!The other plane is 89!
070223 She is such a beauty. It sure is a shame to have her grounded!! Where is this baby sitting now? Is she in TOTAL disrepair? I WISH there is someone out there a millionaire or a large hefty business that would pick up this situation and finance getting her back up in the air and operational!! The entire world could use her!!! Charge the countries for use of her to make some kind of $$ for her use for maintenance, keeping her certification up and running and the staff, personnel and crew as well as all the support equipment needed going! i WISH the US Military would pick her up!!! I know I'm dreaming.
Amazing piloting skills. To aim those drops and manage the immediate change in aircraft weight has to be crazy difficult.
Piloting a jumbo jet though mountains in ever changing conditions to get the water on the fire!!! No autopilot needed here! Imagine getting to ride along!
It's not water.
Nice shooting! 👍 subscribed.
I was surprised to hear they retired the converted 747. Or an I mistaken? Seems like it is needed more than every.
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
Wow - impressive - this is some of the best I've ever seen! Just sub'd!
I miss my old friends and our fire fighting efforts, Love them all, I pray they stay Safe!!!!!
Best job in the world for chopper/airplane enthusiasts. Saving the environment...Valuable people, highly skilled professionals, brave guys (and girls? duno) I had helicopter and airplane training and made it to PPL, but this is what I will do in my next life. Can´t work in that field. Wrong country in Europe and MS
nice to see small aircraft showing dropping zone for bigger one's !. Is that because smaller one's equipped with satellite marking devices for precision drop points ?
Just think what kind of drop spread you would vey from a B52, C117, or even C-5!
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.
amazing fire bombers plane spotting video
Why do the DC-9’s fly wheels down? Any pilots out there copy?
That Bell 212 sound THO
Great video. Such an interesting collection of waterbombers. Just a pet peeve of mine though is calling waterbombing "firebombing". Firebombing has traditionally meant dropping incendiary devices with the intent of starting fires. Like the firebombing of Dresden in WWII.
Serious badass airmanship right there!
Ok. I forgot to mention the amazing footage this fella posted as well. All very professional, steady hand, and all relative content. Nice job allowing us to whiteness the amazing pilots trying to save our state.
nothing beats the CL-415
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Supertanker is only carrying 87% of full load that also counting fuel in the load capacity. Every time he goes back to reload he loads both retardant and fuel.
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
I never saw Globemaster or even Galaxy in this activity. Why doesn't the US Air Force modify its California-based transport planes for this ? Work will be completed more quickly and casualties will be minimized.
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
Now don't hold me to this but I heard a rumor that you guys were supposed to get a brand new 767 with state-of-the-art equipment state-of-the-art engines brand new Wings courtesy of the US government as a new fire fighting equipment for the State of California I sure hope that wasn't a lie that I saw on paperwork sure hope you guys got that thing or are getting that airplane it would definitely be an asset you could use
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
Unbelievable footage. It takes more than being a great pilot to fly these ops. It takes a brave pilot with nerves of steel. They are pushing the envelope in these airplanes, all in service for their fellow Americans. Bravery exemplified.
What is the dump capacity of that 747 ? anyone know?
Aussies could sure use some of these heavy capacity bombers dureing our summer fire seasons.
A few bigger planes would be less cost then the billions lost in damages every year.
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.
May I ask why the gears down during drop from second aircraft? Is it because the airports so close?
Thank you all for what you do to save nature and other humans.
Why, @00:30, does the MD-80 have landing gear down?
Full power high Drag
Sadly, it's 2022, the Company is out of business, and the 747 was sold to National Airlines and converted back to a Cargo aircraft.
The whole world should thank them! I agree.
Thank you for the video it was great
Bro that second clip was dangerous they flew next to a clif that low…
Never gets old
Watched Calfire yesterday. the Glassfire was the big topic but no mentioning of the planes, saw some Blackhawks that´s all... We have the 747, a MD 11? A DC10, a Electra? and a Herc, what´s the smaller ones and did i get any named wrong? BTW, it must be cooler (regarding the risk factor) to pilot this 744 than being a Boeing test pilot of the model. That left turn of the DC-10 at 15:05... Sliding left. OK, not Electra but at the same time.. Orion.
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
Each one of those drops cost about $70,000 each.
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.
I ordered two from AliExpress for less than that.
Wonderful this system to suffocate fires !
Wcolby in the comments has a channel with some impressive footage of the Global Super Tanker 747-400.
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I’m glad they got some large aircraft to do drops. Such as the 747. I know this is pure fantasy but I’d like to see a B-52 make those drops.
747 and likes flying amongst the vallies gives a wonderful sensation. The fact is that the 747 are admired for their sizes down to the ground. With the mountains as the backgrounds, it looks so tiny and funny rendering the beauty somewhat toyish attitude. A thousand likes 👍 for it.
Sucks that the global super tanker just retired.
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.
Be great to here cockpit talk
Poor forest management. These forest trees should have been thinned out, cut down for lumber to build houses. No one benefits from burnt trees. This burnt trees and brush only becomes debris for flash floods.
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.
Watching the 747 fly so slowly and then pull a gorgeous lift over the hills…….beautiful! I love the DC10 too, wish I’d had an opportunity to take a trip in one.
@ 5:00 it looks like the helo dumped gas on the fire.
Thank God for those pilots. This state is in need of qualified heroes and these men are them. You wont hear them on tv patting themselves on the back neither. Using this modified equipment is very dangerous.
Sad people are intentionally setting these fires. But just remember, before human intervention, these fires burnt without ceasing until there was nothing left.
Protecting the mansions and wine vineyards of the super rich sure brings out every form of fire fighting, no expenses spared.
This did it, i need to go to this forest right this instant
Excellent stuff. New sub!
FANTASTIC VIDEO - GREAT CLOSE UPS!
amazing absolutely amazing
I love the shot at appx. :56 seconds into the video when what looked like a Neptune(?) dropped its load in a bank, flinging the retardant off to the side of the peak. Very nice compilation....
C'est un Grumman Tracker, le Neptune ça fait longtemps qu'il ne vole plus.
We need lots of these.
Unfortunately the 747 Global Super Tanker was retired this year.
That’s a aviation disaster waiting to happen. A video of how not to fight a fire.
It all looks like an NAS agent but we saw that from Angry Birds transformers
Amazing how the pilots can throw these "airliners" around the sky when they don't have passenger comfort to worry about. A great tribute to the crews and the airframe makers.
Why are the buckets hung so far under the helicopters?
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
*God bless Those pilot they are real ,matatan,*
Keep charging fellows and be safe
When was the last time #911 the 747 flew a fire?
NAPA in finnish means BELLY BUTTON WINDOW - in the parlance of 1 certain Jimi Hendrix .....
Good job bro
bro I saw those planes going over my house
What kind of planes were those at 2:50?
Its a Cal fire T-83
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Amazing!! yet sad!
when will they use airbus 380 to kill the fire
@Thinker , CL-415 is better... as long as you got a body of water about 1 mile long.
or the Antonov AN-225
Great
My understanding is pending on altitude will how big the spread of retardant will be.
Awesome footage!
Used to load the tankers. Talk about fun in hot miserable conditions. Still haven't figured out how some of the pilots still have seats, I know I'd be puckered up so tight with some of the things do the cushion would be a lost cause. But, as a 10 tanker pilot put it so nicely, "You have to be at least a little crazy to do this, but she's got plenty of power for anything I need her to do!" The best part of loading and mixing was the surprise food. You have no idea how good it is to live off of quick drinks and tiny bags of trail mix from sunrise to sunset with no shade busting retardant bins, just for the pilots ground crew to show up with food for everybody while we shut down the base. A meal never tasted so good.