A cool video shows the DC10 Air Tanker (known as “Supertanker”) performing a nose dive (and subsequent high-G load pull-up) to drop fire retardant over a mountain.
Note the “pathfinder” King Air flying ahead of the DC-10 to point the drop zone for the tanker.
Update:
Unfortunately the video was removed after we posted this story, but the top screenshots gives an idea of the scene.
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Oh, this is a video of a fire bombing DC-10. With just the audio it sounded like, um…something else…
Why is he dropping the retardant on the mountain ridge, and not on the fire itself?
Trying to keep the fire from jumping the top of the ridge?
To prevent the fire from spreading any further, as it (hopefully) won’t be able to burn the trees that are now covered in retardant.
It’s more about stopping the fire from getting any bigger than putting it out. As soon as it’s burned all the trees it’ll go out by it’s self.
It makes a fire break.
Take a look at the wind. Retardant will drift over the fire ensuring a better ‘kill’.
Cool video, but he completely missed the fire.