Sunday, September 06, 2009

Boeing 747 vs Fire

wiki: The Evergreen Supertanker is a Boeing 747-200 commercial airliner that was modified into an aerial firefighting aircraft by Evergreen International Aviation. With a capacity of 24,000 US gallons (94,850 litres), the Supertanker is the largest aerial firefighting aircraft in the world, almost doubling the capacity of the next largest firefighting tanker aircraft, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 known as Tanker 910. The Supertanker entered service for the first time in 2009, fighting a fire in Cuenca, Spain. The tanker made its first American operation on August 31, 2009 at the Oak Glen Fire. Here you can see it fighting real fires.

3 comments:

annom said...

Cool!!

Here is a post about this thing from 2007.

cybrbeast said...

Ah right, we've been blogging so long that I'm forgetting stuff. The video is dead on that link though.
It's nice to see the plane in service now.

annom said...

Perfect post update. You just didn't know :)