PERFECT WATER DROP ON SUNSET HOLLYWOOD HILLS FIRE.....

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[Red Badger]

PERFECT WATER DROP ON SUNSET HOLLYWOOD HILLS FIRE.

VIDEO AT LINK....................

[PilotDave]

It was all helo last night and they did an amazing job knocking down the Hollywood fire. Fixed wing basically doesn’t night drop. It’s too dangerous. 120-150mph at 200’ at night in hilly terrain? Nope. There was a company in Colorado a couple of years ago that claimed they could do just that. On the very 1st night of testing... crash.

[rlmorel]

I’ll bet they wish they still had a few of those massive Mars Amphibians from WWII still flying.

[Red Badger]

The Los Angeles Fire Department is using handbags to collect water to throw on the fires.

Yes, but they are designer bags.................

[mewzilla]

If that footage is indeed legit...

I won’t print what I am thinking...

[Red Badger]

Saw a show on tv about them. They are a really rare aircraft now, as parts are no longer available to keep them flying.

I don’t know why they cannot make new ones they worked so well. Just add modern technology and you have perfect firefighting machines..................

[Lazamataz]

That was awful. It was done by a white heterosexual male, so it was racist.

[Red Badger]

Remember, L.A. fired all the firefighters that would not take the Covid shots.

So, all that’s left are these people.................

[Flash Bazbeaux]

This is an oldie but goodie. Guy cuts down giant Douglas fir, with about a foot of clearance on each side of two buildings, nails it. Jump to 1:01 for the payoff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLtD9l68uCw&t=7s

[Red Badger]

Yes, I saw that!....................

[Waverunner]

God forbid a smelt was scooped up, because as we all know he who smelt it has 5,000n ngo lawyers filing suit today.

[AbolishCSEU]

Meanwhile on the ground: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObTQmoVGtEM

[Third Person]

FWIW, NBC Channel 4 reported multiple times last night that the helicopters were being loaded at the Reservoir

[Gaffer]

Imagine if the LA river had a variable height dam installed at the end of it. Save drain water for stuff like this. Helicopters could drop down and scoop up a bag almost anywhere.

[Bon of Babble]

Where did the water come from?

$10/liter bottles from Erewhon?

[Red Badger]

Perrier!.................

[little jeremiah]

Thanks!

[rlmorel]

They ARE magnificent machines, aren't they? Hard not to admire them.

I have always been a huge fan of DC-3s...just a beautiful machine, tough, reliable, can stay in the air consistently, easy to maintain, wonderful to fly, and can land nearly anywhere there is a flat spot.

I was on Cape Cod a few years back, and heard the unmistakable sound of reciprocating engines. Then this flew over my head...

When my wife and I left the house we were at and drove down the road, a mile or two away, I came across these in a field. A big, grass field:

It was all I could do not to walk around them, and I kept a respectful distance!

But these things are still being flown, even this example below where they retrofitted that fabulous and rugged airframe with turboprop engines!

[rottndog]

At night, in high winds and hilly terrain...very impressive.

[Zathras]

Pete from “Always” would have approved!

[logi_cal869]

Helps make sense, considering the terrain and small size of the reservoirs.

Honestly, I’m not looped in on this due to lack of interest (just responding to what’s posted).