747 SuperTanker joins California's firefighting fleet
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection has used Global SuperTanker Service's Boeing 747-400 for the first time to fight a fire. The SuperTanker is a former Japan Airlines aircraft that's been converted into a retardant-dropping air tanker. Adrienne Moore of CBS station KOVR-TV reports.
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So much BS and red tape around this aircraft if they had 10 of these in service flying 10 hours a day these fires would be put out fast.
nope, the fires would still destroy the place, no amount of aircraft can stop fire when the wind is blowing 60 mph. It's futile. The answer is not suppression or prevention, it's acceptance and preparation. Try building steel frame homes instead of ones out of plywood...that's a start.
@@Sugarsail1 Clearly know nothing about fighting fires, or home construction.
Nex Gamez he is right though. No aircraft can put out huge fires with strong wing
10 at $60K an hour...Hmmm
*Makes sense!*
Um, they contain fire...not put out.
$16,000 per hour? How are insurance companies not loving this aircraft? Save a few houses would save millions in claims!
william smith yea true BUT THE LOOOVE when homeowners pay extra for deductible :/
Honestly, 16 an hour is dirt cheap for this thing. It would be less than the cumulative cost of those other planes on multiple trips.
it's totally ineffective...when the wind is blowing 50 + mph they can't fly and you can't stop the fire anyway..it's all a show for politicians to the dumbed down citizenry to make them feel they're being saved. If they built homes out of steel instead of plywood, we'd have no need for Calfire at all. Also the insurance companies benefit from homes burning down because they calculate that risk into their premiums, but when a fire occurs they always declare a state of emergency which liberates state and local funds to cover damages not covered by insurance. Thus the insurance companies can use massive fires to justify high premiums while avoiding paying out settlements knowing the government will pick up the slack.
its not worth it austrailia still burning build bigger liker thunderbird2
@@Sugarsail1 dude, there's so much wrong in your statement AND LOGIC it's astonishing you can breath
I see this exact bird taking off over my home at least once a week
17k or 500k+ in damages
Pretty cheap cost, considering that they don't operate on a daily basis.
Considering they still has to maintain it even when they are not using it, to make it always ready they have to do maintenance even when its in ground but still kinda good tho.
Also, with better ability to stop fires, it will save money spent on rebuilding homes, etc...
Karlen Bell they don’t
The Il-76 firefighter is a regular Il-76 transport with two large tubes in the cargo hold. It carries 13.000 gallons of water/retardant. Installing the systems takes an hour and a half. And when it's not needed to fight fires it can go back to normal transport duties "on a daily basis". Talking about cost efficiency.
The one used in Chile (nicknamed there Luchin) is property of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. Not a private corporation looking for profit.
But when they do, they cost a crap load.
Reporter: “have you given it a name”
Guy: “ I call this the worlds largest super soaker”
Deven Looney lots of fun at pool parties
We need more of these.
Awesome to see this aircraft being used in California against wildfires right now, August 2020!
This livery on this 747 Is a beauty
Now use an Antanov AN 225.
lol
Damn it, I was thinking of A380 but you beat me by a mile.
It's not about having the biggest plane.
Besides there is literally only one an 225 on earth
use an converted Super Guppy with a pressurized tank.
well in 10 to 20 years they will, that 747 was made in 91 ;þ
Honest we need more than one. God Bless America.
They don't use the one they have.
They should retrofit all 747 's heading for retirement, like this. The world needs this. Stately ladies,those 747's....
You guna pay for it all??
'Forest Service refused to allow the tankers to drop on its fires.'
Stealing is illegal because the government doesnt like the competition, even fires.
state and national forests they usually just let burn
Lmao and 1-2 months later, Northern California has one of the worst fires in history in Sonoma
Its doing great right now in the mountains looking over Lake Elsinore Aug. 2018! God bless you pilots! :)
ITS A REALLY BEAUTIFUL WHITE AND RED JETLINER :) SURE LOVE THE JUMBO JETS FOR GOOD USE
It’s doing a great job down here in Lake Elsinore, Corona and on the Holy Fire
The cost of flight isn’t what’s expensive, it’s the retardent foam. At a price of $3/gal, this thing drops almost $60,000 in less than 10 seconds, which is why it’s not always used.
They need about ten of those.
Thanks JAL
To be REALLY effective it would need a larger wing, lowering the stall speed and allowing it to fly slower over the fire (which would mean more water dumped on each square foot, effectively drowning the fire completely).
Red Baron oh good, an arm chair expert here.
California should have atleast have 3 or 5 of these
This should be called “the world biggest fire egstingwisher”
They should use this on the Amazon rainforest fire
They using 747 to drop that fluid that's insane man . isnt gonna cost you ton ?
It did last week over Salinas valley they must still be using it for the Dolan fire in big sur
The natives knew and still know the best way to handle the fire situation. Watching this is purely for entertainment. This is not even difficult.
$$$$, how can't 16 thousands dollars, a hour b Justify, when u r talking about Families, homes, live stock. Our Firefighters can only do so much! I would like to C our Military, backing these Firefighters! I still believe. Along the main roads N the Mountains, we need to build fire pumping tanks of some kind. Stations that would have open amount of water, from Large wells. Something, to speed up putting these fires out more quickly. To help fight Fires, N THESE AREARS, IS NOT FAST ENOUGH. NOT PUTTING OUR FIREFIGHTERS down by Know means. We just need to come up with some newer technology
wells atop mtns, in dry country, where it rarely rains??? Esplain again how thats gonna work,,,,
Helicopters can reload in minutes, this giant?
The DC-10 takes 15 minutes. This shouldn't be much different.
Sometimes, when you fight a 30 round AR with a 1000 round LMG, there is a likely chance he 1000 round LMG will win, which means, it can fire 100 rounds without reloading. Whereas the AR can only fire 30, and has to reload every 30 round burst.
This could do 1 run and do more than 20 runs in a helicopter
747 uses pressurized tanks not gravity tanks and should take only 15 minutes.
I had to play :12 like multiple times. A genuine mishap.
i wonder if a b 52 could be use as a tanker and i hate to say it it would carry more
Not all forest fires are bad that’s why they probably didn’t want it extinguished. Fire is a natural part of the life cycle of the forest and it’s trees. It’s only bad when it gets close to developed areas and structures.
This flew over me as I was heading north on 505 today.
Somebody can get pretty rich by making a business lease a bunch of these jumbo Jets converted to water tankers and charge people to put up your damn fires
When you just saw it in the wallbrige fire ;-;
The Super Tanker has now been gutted out, and sold to another country as a cargo transport. This occurred because of issues with maneuverability, inability to dump its entire load (often returning with too much residual retardant) and turn-around time to reload. SAD.
Send this plane to Australia to help fight the bushfires or help the Australia fire department build one similar to this so they can fight the bushfires 19 tons of water sounds good who's the company that build this system? They need to make a few more planeslike this and send them to other countries that had fires in the past in order to help fight forest,bushfires or jungle fire ..
frisco kid help the Australia fire department build a 747 tanker?
frisco kid Australia has to ask for it.
16,000 An hour!!! AHHHHHHHH
I think they'd rather use it for the 16000 an hour than replace and rebuild buildings and stuff worth millions.
Do you guys have a DC-10?
"Super Soaker" ! He He He !
Texas needs one on standby
It’s not CalFire’s... It’s owned and operated by a private contractor and is used all over the world.
and bilking taxpayers for leasing it to them to no effect.
If this airplane would save lives, property, time, and man power than I say use it.
Why not create a fleet of russian BE-200? They can refill in seconds from a nearby lake and they could fly a relay, one after another, stop the fire, before it gets so big.
Dear California Bashers, the FEDERAL Forestry Service has to approve of the use of these planes to fight fires, so don’t blame California if they aren’t used.
They seem like a great idea to me, but I’m not a professional in this area. Here’s one potential problem: 747’s aren’t very maneuverable - especially when flying through smoke close to the ground in hilly areas with crazy air currents. A crash in a populated area would be really, really bad.
How many gallons can transport here?
There saving lives right now in California, why do governments always think about money over lifes
Is the plane still based in Colorado or did they move to calf?
Tim Moore the global super tanker aircraft’s home base is in Colorado Springs but it was temporary based in California to hep with the wildfires
This is just straight up overkill...
*The American Way!*
Retired now in 2021
nice i just heard 2 american news agencies report about the same aircraft only with totally different statistics....
They should add more big planes, old c130s or globetrotters, the military has plenty in surplus, more planes like this would save so many homes and lives.
I do get that they are insanely expensive. but I feel like in the long run it'd even out between needing to buy these things and needing to pay for a shitload of firefighters on the ground from numerous counties
Rythblaqk they use them. It was a C-130 that crashed in Australia recently.
should come to the uk and tackle this moor fire
i didnt see how it helped with the woolsey, tubbs or camp fire. all happened after supertanker was invented
16k a Time ?
Imagine an A380 tanker!
Imagine an a380 tanker that can't takeoff with double decked water tanks.
She flew today
$16,000 per hour? And they are saying that is expensive?????????!? Let's see the cost of a typical home in California running at $600K-2000K, and these houses burning to ground in minutes, and they are keeping this equipment from flying? What planet are these people from? Now that they have a tool to stop fires, they don't want to use it????
Woah
Did she just say “Retarted tanker” XD LAMO
"Special needs" tanker ;)
No she said "Retardant-dropping air tanker" smh -_-
Do it in the carr fire
im gonna bring this to the next water gun war
Isn’t 16000 less than Air Force one, like this really shows our priorities doesn’t it
Plane that drops water vs a flying nuke-resistant command base... which one do you think would be more expensive?? And yeah, the priorities are in line. You have the ENTIRE COUNTRY (minus those who are unable to contribute to society) paying for one plane vs possible a state paying for another plane... it makes sense.
You win for the dumbest comment
No need for this on the Carr fire as it burns historic locations like Lewiston?????????
It costs $1 million to launch that 747 plane
Just use the Boeing 747 Dreamliner bigger
Japanese aircraft dropping bombs, water bombs.
As a taxpayer it's worth it
Super tanker in Amazonia naw.
there too small aircraft manufactures need to be designing better planes to put out fire fast obviously they have no idea austrailia still burning they need thunderbird2 too put out fires
Its should be used its the B.S .that does not allow it to be used !@ if it saves one life ! .but they will give free money away to illegal immigrants!!
Can we stop meddling in other countries military affairs and start spending more money at home ? Can you imagine what would America be like if we spent half of our military budget here at home ??????
We need to start building homes out of concrete, not twigs!! It’s a way to survive these End Times.
It's not alone enough to fight fires....the Russian BE 200 is what California needs right now
Did they say "dont drop the water on the fire" duh! Water plain cant help put out FIRE stupid!. Conspiracy
At even stall speed, no - it would still be flying too fast to be effective with straight water. If there were some way to make the wing larger however and let it fly slower it would stand a better change of dousing it.
For all of the amount of kids that you don't know any airplane or firefighter and how to measurement of a water tanks and how many you need to be wasting how much had to be with you again and had to be with you again and again and again if you want to listen to it very carefully then be like a come up with your own ideas and do not cheat of anyone else because if you cheat that means you're liar so if you want to design of a different aircraft tank it is your choice like I said so many put a type of aircraft is a prototype to come out because I have to be safety safety safety safety prototype come out testing second safety third and then the fourth one will be approved this new aircraft that's it you don't have to cheat you know you just have to understand
Was that supposed to be a comment or a carnival ride?
lmao they are talking about money yet spend all that money on police militarization
Talking about Global Warming, Where science can make it Rain! LOL, to stop Fires from getting out of Hand!
Isn’t “retardant” ableism?
Not in this context
Why not let them use it? Is it cheating if you use this? Will it cut so many jobs from firefighters? hmmm...something sounds suspicious
These tankers help create a fire break line but they do not put out fires. The bodies on the ground in harms way are the ones making the difference.
Breaking news, plane to busy dropping chemtrails. To help with fire.
This is the world we live in, especially in California where chemtrails are sprayed daily.
Right because they use fire fighting planes to dump aluminum and barium
GABEOWENS
nice money going down the pooper
ya us big money they can make white house into an international zoo too
tool we need my foot
gay
I take it that you are an Airbus fan.
Who u are