Not quite a warbird, but closer than a sunken German warship

[Larry Kraus]

As I mentioned earlier, these are screen shots saved from one of the videos in this post on the Fire Aviation website here:

https://fireaviation.com/2020/10/05/vid ... r-tankers/

I don’t actually see any fire here, so I assume that the area is being pretreated either for an approaching fire or to prepare for a burnout operation. There is already a considerable amount of retardant on the ground.


64AB6BCD-F4AA-4239-A8FD-9594F744CB20 by tanker622001, on Flickr

B5C6A769-5543-4CDE-8097-81DB49981EFE by tanker622001, on Flickr

5C52BE20-23EC-4302-9CAF-76D7F1350981 by tanker622001, on Flickr

5DD6A99C-473A-494B-A098-7E71C9C4D4DF by tanker622001, on Flickr

31DE295C-2209-43FD-9448-F261D4F2E491 by tanker622001, on Flickr


9E7A8387-BDC2-4168-BF42-F8AAA792F3FC by tanker622001, on Flickr

[bdk]

Does the 747 have a slipper tank or is the retardant stored internally?

[Larry Kraus]

The 747 has the most god awful mess of a plumbing nightmare for a tank system that was originally designed by Evergreen. It’s ridiculously complex compared to the external tank system on the DC-10 tankers.

These are a couple of screen captures from the Global Super Tanker website here:

https://globalsupertanker.biz/

DE775CC9-BDA2-4742-B422-EB540BE59D56 by tanker622001, on Flickr

28F6A92D-FB74-4858-BE0F-A3A681B7A217 by tanker622001, on Flickr

[Stoney]

is the DC-10 tanker a -10 or -30?

[Larry Kraus]

According to the 10 Tanker website the DC-10 fleet consists of DC-10-30’s.

Here’s a link to their website:

https://www.10tanker.com/

Here’s a data sheet from that site on the aircraft

030DF107-0AFA-46FC-9BBA-ED64D7D02CC9 by tanker622001, on Flickr