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Video: Exhilarating DC-10 Firefighter Plane Pulls Off Incredible Maneuver In Silverado Canyon 9/12/2014

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"When on a hike to view the carnage a wildfire was taking on my hometown, I caught a fantastic clip of DC-10- dropping fire retardant in a treacherous ridge about to be enveloped in flames. Nobody wanted to come with me because of the steep trail and the inherent dangers of being close to a forest fire, so I was just up there alone. A very unique experience. On the way up the steep trail, I watched many other planes pass over the burning ridge and drop retardant and water, and I was just… (www.youtube.com) 기타...

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jbqwik 5년 전 8

Experience, guts and dang good flying.

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José Barrientos 5년 전 4

Man and machine doing a good job

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David Baker 5년 전 3

Film crew getting hit directly by a fire retardant drop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncnCSmLImqE

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sparkie624 5년 전 1

Nice... Thanks for sharing... Real class and dedication to the camera guy who will do everything to get the action shot...

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joel wiley 5년 전 1

It appears they were on the periphery rather than the middle. You can still see thru the lens.

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dee9bee 5년 전 5

Interesting video. I just wish the guy shooting it would have kept his mouth shut...

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sparkie624 5년 전 2

LOL, that is what they make Mute Buttons for.. :)

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adambear8 5년 전 2

but then you can't hear the engines.

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sparkie624 5년 전 2

You can't have your cake and eat it too... If you do not want to hear the guy talk, mute it, if you want to hear the engines, deal with it... It is his video that he shared... Not ours... When someone complains about one of my videos, I tell them it was shot and edited to my tastes, unless someone was paying me to do it.

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jim garrity 5년 전 2

The King Air is known as "Air Attack",(Fire boss for drop planes), kind of like an air-born ATC. The a/c is called "Tanker 10.

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houseofgold 5년 전 2

Dont understand, it missed the fire, are they just treating the adjacent brush?

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Ryan Rumsey 5년 전 2

The retardant that it drops is to keep the fire from spreading rather than putting it out.

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joel wiley 5년 전 1

Retardant is dropped in the fire's path to slow down or block the its progress and to better enable crews to strengthen firelines. Note that the drop was just on the downhill side of the ridge as the fire moves slower downhill. Water drops may be made directly on active spots.

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sparkie624 5년 전 1

Interesting.... I was wondering that my self..... It was very interesting to watch...

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joel wiley 5년 전 1

What's easy to miss is the lead plane at 10-15 seconds showing where they want the drop. Is that a King Air lead plane.

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sparkie624 5년 전 1

I noticed that... A key factor in getting the right spot.

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jaymeinen 5년 전 1

They were making a line on the ridge to keep the fire from spreading.

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Paul Robbins 5년 전 0

Sir, They do that to prevent the fire from continuing to grow, they always drop their retardant downwind from the fire. There is no use in saving burned plants.

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David Stark 5년 전 2

This video featured two characteristics that are rarely seen in amateur videos.

1) The camera stayed on the action the whole time.

2) Lack of swear words in the audio.

Excellent work!

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José Barrientos 5년 전 2

Ok I didnt mean it was a man. When I say man it's the generic way to call humans but if you wish I better say Humans and machine.

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AAaviator 5년 전 2

No need to be a PC whipped apologist Jose.

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joel wiley 5년 전 0

Understood your original post that way as I would hope most did. Those who object may also feel ´el hombre propone pero dios dispone´ also lack political correctness.

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Lloyd Boyette 5년 전 1

Old.... but still an incredible video!

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sharon bias 5년 전 1

When there are fires in N. California, that DC10 flies right over my house. It is so cool

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joel wiley 5년 전 1

On last year's King fire in El Dorado Cty Calif, they were using McClellen as a reload base. Their approach went right over my house. Those with full ADS-B were tracked by piaware and uploaded to FA. With more piaware stations this year, we could get MLAT positions on the rest of them.

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joel wiley 5년 전 1

And they're doing that 4-5 times a day this summer. Bless 'em all.

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linbb 5년 전 1

And where the lead in plane goes so goes the tanker. Saw it making a drop outside of Dayton WA a few years back.

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oowmmr 5년 전 1

Perfect drop.

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John Yount 5년 전 1

In 1980 a paper was written by a student at the National Fire Academy explaining that the use of "jumbo jets" to protect the urban interface should be part of the short term aerial fire fighting plan. CDF (Cal Fire) in the mid 1990's agreed and initiated the use of a very large air tanker (VLAT) with a contract for service. At the same time NASA and the U.S. Forest Service conducted a study which for the most part said that the VLAT concept was too big and could not work in mountainous terrain. Federal thinking.

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joel wiley 5년 전 1

A bit more info on VLATS and load comparison w/ other resources. VLAT >8000 gal, Type 1 3000-7999 gal (this includes the ANG's MAFFS units)
http://fireaviation.com/tag/very-large-air-tanker/

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Ryan Rumsey 5년 전 1

10-tanker, part of the company i work for here in Tulsa

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Henry Arrington 5년 전 1

Amazing! !!!!!

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Robert Huddleston 5년 전 1

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Hugh Somsen 5년 전 1

Beautiful flying! During my college years I was a seasonal FF for USFS up in the Rockies. We sure appreciated the tankers. Before the red retardant, they used a Green Slime. If you get hit by a little overspray, it's like a ton of snot hitting you. This one bush pilot used to take delight jettisoning our re supply load, right on the rocks nearby. Scraping scrambled eggs off the rocks was an interesting experience. Especially when we had been on the line for 24 hours straight.. Those re supply canisters parachutes didn't like to open in a timely fashion.

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Hugh Somsen 5년 전 1

The name of the green retardant was Algen.

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AAaviator 5년 전 1

The retardant dump was pretty cool, but wasn't all that dazzled by the flying.

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Barbara Midkiff 5년 전 1

I'd say that's pretty darn good flying considering the low altitude and slower speeds required. All the older prop planes are just getting too old and needed parts are getting too hard to find. Thumbs up for all these hardworking firefighters!

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joel wiley 5년 전 1

Not to mention the turbulence from the fire-generated weather.

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sseeplane 5년 전 1

For the cost of using a DC10 could have used a thousand drones and blown the fire out.

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joel wiley 5년 전 2

If the fire is coming over the ridge behind my house, I will opt for 10 Tanker or a C-130 thank you. Besides, drone would just be added fuel.

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WhiteKnight77 5년 전 1

I know exactly where they fire is at. There was a landing zone where we would practice confined area landings in that is/was 10 miles from Tustin MCAS(H) and less than 5 miles from Irvine Lake. Squadrons from Tustin had helped with firefighting duties in the past. Now that may not happen due to being so far south.

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WhiteKnight77 5년 전 1

Man, I really flubbed that up. They = that.

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joel wiley 5년 전 1

Autocorrect demaon strikes again.

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Fritz Steiner 5년 전 1

WOW!! Great flying ...

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Leandro Vale 5년 전 1

awesome!

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Leandro Vale 5년 전 1

awesome!

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Cathal Gallagher 5년 전 1

What a pilot, what a plane

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bettiem 5년 전 0

How do you know that the pilot was a man? However, agreed that both the aircraft and the crew performed very well.

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joel wiley 5년 전 1

There is a problem with posts recently. If you hit reply two boxes appear, one under the post and one at the top. The cursor is left at the top instead of the reply, and if not noticed, the context is lost. Please see my reply to J. Barrientos elsewhere in the thread.

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