This is what it looks like inside the cockpit when a Firefighting plane scoops 1585 gallons of water in 12 seconds. Balls of steel over here.

Wild ride balls deep

He always kept his cool

Málaga port in south Spain 🇪🇦 and 43 Wing of @EjercitoAire 💪🏼

Smaller version - 800 gallons in about the same time. The airframe is one of the new SOCOM planes - the sky warden.

Imagine the scuba diver who happens to surface at the wrong moment.

I think I could do this

Hold my beer

Could do 1,600 gallons, but the pilot has to account for the weight of his massive balls.

Why is he moving the steering wheel like that? Or is the water doing that?

Seems like it’s the water entering

Ok that’s what I thought. I can only imagine the skill it takes to do that job!

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Hats off!

One of those flew over me at the beach in malibu once and scooped over the ocean to collect the water. Thing was gigantic close up

I was asked if i wanted to fly in a helicopter we filled with water (of course I said, YES) and it dropped the water over a fire! It was awesome! And so is this. ahh memories.

Not to mention the crew that did it the first time. The guy that thought it up was probably borderline psychotic.

Thank you for this. In California we see water drops practically daily but not the skill and nerves required . God bless all those who help. You may think we are not grateful but we are.

me and the boys driving home from the bar after 17 beers

Definitely! I I almost threw up just watching it! Kudos to these pilots!

Amazing. Curious how the pilots know when their water tank is full before pulling up the airplane?

Canadair pilots are insane. 🫡

Canadair / Bombardier / De Havilland CL-415 (often called the “Super Scooper”). 🇨🇦

Designed to tackle fires in the remote, unforgiving vast Canadian wilderness and lift water from remote lakes to fight fires. Canadair Aerial firefighters.

This is absolutely stunning to watch.

That yoke does not appear to be connected to anything

They are amazing pilots.

That has to be what it feels like to do a controlled crash landing. I'll stick with parachutes!

lol, these guys obviously have zero fucks to give.

WOW!

That is crazy , the control of that plane seems to be static at minimal

This video shows EXACTLY why i am not a water-scooping-fire-fighting pilot. Maybe that's just me?

Newsom is banning it soon, “uses too much water”.

Grade A badassery

Wowza!!!

@warriors_mom Props to the engineers who designed these too

Nice 👍

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