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Great footage Raincoast. Canada should be replacing our obsolete jet fighters with these wonderful aircraft. A much more better use of tax dollars. Thanks. Please send some of your rain coast rain to the Okanagan.

In the case of fire fighting aircraft, bigger is much better.

Please let us hear the whine of the engines and not the whine of the orchestra. Thank you.

Great information. As someone who only does photography I thought I may as well take advantage of all the capabilities of the Z8 and try and learn some new tricks. This opens the door nicely for me. Thanks for your time man

Hi there , this does not work for me . Only way it works on slow motion for me is to set video file type H.264 8bit (MP4) and then select frame size / frame rate to 1920 x 1080 ; 30p x4 Can you please advise how do you do slow motion. Thanks

How many milligrams is that? Ha ha…Thats 6 cubic meters.

I spent the summer with my family at Shawnigan Lake and Cobble Hill in 1970. Had my first girlfriend there. Good memories! Hope all goes well and everyone is safe.

Amazing pilots.

Thanks for the assistance Ontario, we used to have 2 pretty capable water bombers but Christy Clark and the B.C. United party decided that we no longer needed them because Coulson Aviation was an NDP supporter😢

Excellent footage! I saw both of these aircraft along with their "bird dog" spotter aircraft at Abbotsford International Airport, while they were getting fuel on July 27th and 28th. On the 27th I had the pleasure of meeting the crew who invited us aboard to have a quick look inside the aircraft and answered all of our questions about it. Then they hopped back in and took off again for their next bash at fighting the fires over there. Amazing machines, and a great crew.

not an enormous- and typically very busy lake- how do they manage boat traffic?

Great video if you could eliminate the annoying music!! Would really appreciate the sound of those amazing powerful engines. Thank you . 👍🌹

Combating forest fires with Alberta Petroleum power. Let's see an electric plane try and do that.

Canada needs to get its shit together and base 15 of these planes in each province in the country!! thses fires are not going to get any better ...............instead of pissing tax payers money away to other countries................

Were the 2 from Ontario the only ones there?

The CL415 is a brutally beautiful aircraft. Everything about it says this is a hard working tool for an impossible job. Brilliant.

Sorry but do not put this on climate change, this was lit by humans

When was the last time Canada bought new water bombers?

Forest fires are devastating Canadian forests and towns. This aircraft is obviously a major valuable tool for fighting forest fires. How many of these aircraft are there? How old are these aircraft? Who is manufacturing this, or an equivalent aircraft today? Why aren't there hundreds of these aircraft currently on order?

Hey Federal and Provincial Governments, wake up and smell the Smoke, Canada every Summer is on fire, we have lost 2 communities almost 3 in the last 4 years, bring back forest spacing program's and build bigger water capacity Water Bombers.

4 brand new Mars Bombers built by Viking Air here in Victoria b.c, keep 2 on the Westcoast and keep 2 in Ontario, time to be proactive on these fires that are getting more intense and bigger than ever before.

Nice view of the lake. I built my first home half a block from the water in 1979 . A great place to live.

I think maybe they accidentally dropped gas on fire with how fast it's growing 😞

Epic imagery of the Mars Water Bombers and the pilots work... arcing down to the water and trimming up to a precise tail down skim across the surface until full tank and then power on to pull up and out off the lake back to the fire. This is amazing footage.

Great photography! But I'd rather hear the engines than your unnecessary soundtrack. And yes, every community has its share of irresponsible jerks who start fires. I had someone drop a lit cigarette on my driveway just two weeks ago, and it was lucky I saw it smouldering.

Great shot Stu!!

According to reports the fire was so massive water bombers would have had little effect. The turbulence created by 100 meter flames made it impossible to use these aircraft. The risk factor was too great in Jasper.

Amazing!

😅whydowehave. quebec water bombers. where is Coulson?

Hi big thank to you helping, I was able to set up and shoot very nice pictures thanks to you.

You had me until you used the phrase as our climate warms. It's our summer it gets quite hot as it does

Is there a water bomber there not from Ontario?

You did a very nice job on the video. Nicely done. Kudos.

Are boaters asked to stay off the water when the water bombers are around, or do they voluntarily vacate?

Later in my career I inspected large components and even the wing with a laser tracker. That wing is thick and the air foil is for major lift.

I used to inspect composite parts for this aircraft when it was owned by Bombardier. Even the tanks. My favorite aircraft after the DeHavilland Beaver. Owned by viking air now and assembled in Calgary.

Yah, the fires are so unfortunate but wow, did you get some great footage, well done. Thanks for posting.

Same plane each time? What was the turn around, from pick up to drop?

Great footage but terrible music!!! Would have much rather enjoyed listening to the engines working to fill and lift the plane into the air.

The 515 is great too

Great video but the music ruined the experience.

who's the dick in the sail boat?

Thanks forthe footage and a bigger Thanks to Ontario for the planes !

Think how much good these could had done, we were promised a fleet of these in Trudeau’s 2021 election speech, instead we got 10 billion to Ukraine, 1 billion to the green slush fund 60 million to arivescam and so on and so on but nothing for actual threats or the military.

The only province in Canada that doesn't have CL415'S on contract, but sniveling every year for help from the rest of the provinces. Just absolute stupidity in this province. Thanks Ontario!!!

it scared the shit out of my ducks😂

Astounding good pilot, very fine flying. This is not because of climate change, we've been putting fires out for decades using these bombers, climate change is a HOAX. The forest is very poorly managed, all the corporations want is profits, they don't care about serfs living in the forest.

Here comes the armchair fire experts... Let ‘er rip folks.

My question is were there any of these CL415 available or used on the fires in Jasper, if not why?

The segment around 2 minutes is fantastic. You can even see the moment the tank is full and water comes out of the overflow. Great work, for both you and the pilots.