DC10 Air Tanker fighting a fire on a mountain
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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