Holy Moly... Anti Fire Treatment - USA

[slim6y]

Because of the raging bushfires in California - this is one of the methods used to control the fire.

Ok... so we use helicopters and maybe light aircraft - this is crazy huge!!!

 

[Notorious_Guf]

Photoshop

 

[bundybear]

Photoshop

more than likely......
but if it was going to happen it would probably be in america

 

[Australis]

I think the choppers we use are in fact American, Slim.
Theres buckleys thats real, a passenger jet, c'mon.

 

[slim6y]

You're all so suspicious...

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/07/californias_continuing_fires.html

 

[Tatelina]

What's the red stuff suppoused to be anyway?

 

[slim6y]

Fire retardant - that's all I know!

 

[Sidonia]

The first thing I thought on seeing that was tampons... lol.

 

[LullabyLizard]

Woah! Thats big!

Photoshop?

 

[Retic]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/09/26/index.html

 

[Bonustokin]

For those who are too lazy to check out the link. The photo Slim posted is captioned with

"10 Tanker Air Carrier, a DC-10 jet converted to a firefighting aircraft, drops Phos-Check fire retardant over the Piute fire as more than 1,400 wildfires continue to burn across about 550 square miles of central and northern California, on July 1, 2008 south of Isabella Lake, California."

Only in America hey? :lol:

 

[RedEyeGirl]

Yeah go photoshop!

 

[angel]

when reading the the link they don't seem to be photo shopped...but who knows with the web

 

[mebebrian]

Think thats big? is also says on the link provided:

"Another Supertanker, a 747, is still sitting on a runway in Arizona waiting for the FAA to approve it even though it has already been approved by the U.S. Forest Service."

 

[snake_boy]

its not photoshop

 

[Notorious_Guf]

Seems like a waste of time and money when it would clearly have to land every time it refills. The Choppers and the original fire fighting planes all could fill up either by hovering above water and dropping in a hose or landing in water and then continuing to take off without stopping. This would have to stop, have a hose linked up with a tank of water, fill it, get it set to take off again and then repeat the whole process.

 

[bfg23]

its not water, its fire retardant, and it carries 12000 gallons of it. which im sure no helicopter could.
it costs 26.5k per hour to hire. im sure someone would have worked out whether it would be feasible to use it, and it seems as though its very effective.

wonderful in my opinion, definitely would not complain about that helping put out fires threatening my home..

 

[miley_take]

Either way, it's wither very cool, or a good job photoshopping

 

[slim6y]

I can't wait till the start using the Antinov jets for this same purpose

 

[Chrisreptile]

That is definitely real, hard to imagine how much fire retardant it would drop though.