The Newfoundland Govt sprang for a couple of new CL 415 water bombers this summer, in the traditional and now somewhat famous 'peas and carrotts' paint scheme. Video made at Paddy's Pond Newfoundland July 30 2012.
Growing up with a forester dad in Gander, I used to love watching the old Catalinas fly - what a beautiful plane. As cub scouts we once had one drop a tankload of water not far from us - I'll never forget the plane cruise overhead as the water misted over us - as a kid it was a dream come true!
Yes I liked them too. I have a video on here from 1995 of a CL-215 and a Catalina water bomber before it was retired. Gander Festival of Flight 1995 I believe
I'm a simple man. I see a Water Bomber video, I click on it. Sometimes twice. Then I follow the recommendations for similar videos even though I have already seen them.
I was privileged to see a couple of these impressive birds at Lewistown, Montana a couple of years ago. I hung around the airport because it looked like they were going to take off. I was watching a young lady working around one of the aircraft, and I thought maybe she was a ramp girl or other support person. Then I saw her climb into the plane and take the left seat ! I laughed at my unintended chauvanism..she was the pilot. !! I got to see her take off. I know you have to be a damn good pilot to fly their missions and I salute that young lady and her fellow pilots !
00:32 Irv, Myron and Claude out fishing and here comes a CL-415. Irv says: "Myron, you best get tuh squeez'in that throttle on the Evinrude an bit harder eh !!"
@Randy Baumery Again I say, from an engineering standpoint the purpose of the airframe will determine it's look. A hull for water, high wings (but no struts) to utilize all the fuselage and allow visibility, along with high mounted engines for both water clearance and visibility. The PBYs we reccon. and search/rescue and their design reflected that, so form follows function.
You may wish to update the title. The CL215, 415 and now 415 EAF and in a couple years he 515 are now Viking Air Ltd. In its quasi-bankrupctcy, Bombardeir sold all their plane assets (except business jet, not done yet), and the ex Canadair water bombers went to Viking Air. Viking Air also got discontinued de Havilland planes like the Twin Otter (Viking restarted production of those with updated model). Upon getting the CL215/415 from Bombardier, Viking quickly started the 215 tro 415 upgrade programme where a 215 gets turboprop engines (215 was pioston) , updated avionics, and greater water capacity. These are called the 415-EAF. Viking also started a 515 project to update the 415 tro more modern materials/standards etc,. Viking Air is a sister company to deHavilland Canada which got the Dash-8 from Bombardier.
It is called DHC 515 Amphibious firefighter/ Waterbomber now. The project is in full swing now. The first of many DHC 515 is scheduled to be rolled out of De Havilland Aircraft Canada Calgary facility in 2026!
@@Aviation-PlaneSpotter Thanks for the update. The Viking web site didn't ispire confidence the project would take off with plenty of orders, And with all the firest fire disasters around the world, I would have hoped they would would be up there waiving hands with "hey, we have a solution with the CL515, order it now !"
It's correct to say either in my view... it's a Canadair designed aircraft that Bombardier continued producing after acquiring Canadair so, while Bombardier would now have a legal right to put their name on it, it's not "incorrect" to alternatively say Canadair as that's just a tribute to the type's history. Interesting to note that in its original radial engine configuration (i.e. Canada CL-215), it had four of exactly the same engine (two inline coupled in each nacelle, each pair driving a single prop) that powered the famous Grumman F6F Hellcat during WW2.
One has come to western Oregon to help fight our fires. God Bless you and thank you. Watching that glowing red sky and flames approaching our property was a bit concerning.
Yes I see what you mean, actually. They sacrificed looks for function on these I think. Great water bomber though. I also have videos of the CL-215 with the radial piston engines, which sounds cooler.
Ever wonder how the missing scuba diver ended up being found on the side of the mountain after the folks returned to their homes near los angeles a few years ago. Now you know.
I've been watch the Spanish and Maroccan pilots in the Rif Valley, Marocco the last couple of summers. Those pilots could drop a coin down a well that's next to a cliff in a storm and keep coming back doing it until dusk. Maybe one coin by diving straight down, another one dropped into it simply while flying over at speed, and so on. Altruistic adrenaline junkies doing stunts with heavily laden agile beasts like this while saving my not so agile arthritic rescue horse and donkeys. Pretty cool.
There's around 12,000 #'s difference in just a few seconds! That has to be 2 different types of flying with 1 aircraft! Oh and that little boat,,,,, kinda trolling fast aren't you! Great video.
Some seriously awesome people. Boaters playing chicken with a plane, motorcyclist that saw it coming and took off, general lee, and lastly the person with mega cajones flying that plane. Hahaha. So much to love.
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The guys in the boat were never in any danger, these boys know how to fly, and it can tear up the ground and un root trees while dropping it’s 6 ton of water.
in greece where we have huge wildfires we have some of these but very old *8 CL215 - 4 CL415...major drawback they can't fly under windy conditions at more than 7 bfr cant fly especialy the 215 when the ground/air temp is more than 38 degrees C. Extreme wildfires with heat up to 39 and more than 7bfr winds and giand smoke clouds obscurrring the sky and ground they can't do much...and if the sea has winds to 8 bfr they cant get water easily...prefer the erickson skycrane where it can beat 8bfr but if exceeds to more is more difficult as well. Earlier during 2007, 2008, 2009,2012, 2013 where we had large/catastrophic wildfires the first hours where winds were blowing like hell under heat conditions more than 40 degrees C fire fronts were 25 to more than 40km long ... ground crews had to do the job... just impossible as fire fronts circulate like giant tornadoes. (Zacharo wildfire - Elia perfecture - 2007 - 48 deaths - 450.000 acres ) This is very tough and things are very hard if there are different wildfires across the continent or greek islands. Greece is mountainous and steep mountains with pines makes wildfires run like hell. In 2007 where the wildfires in peloponissos were extreme megafires (more than 1.500.000 acres burned in only 3 firestorm days - 70 people died - 200 villages badly damaged - total loss during that summer 3.000.000 acres 80 deaths - more than 400 villages/communities affected) greek canadairs fire plan collapsed so we had to call for international help for more planes and chopers) Things were more dramatic especially in 2007/2009 as we lost planes and crew members dew to failures under extreme situations where canadairs were the only primary defense against crowning fast moving wildfires. Canadiar greek pilots are the best in europe probably the world and are HEROES
Shit there was a second there that I thought the People on that boat was fixing to play a flintstone and pick the boat up then a jesus walk across the water.
So far 70 pyromaniacs give it a thumb down. What’s really interesting is that governements can afford 100 million dollar fighter arcraft but a 35 million waterbomber is just too exspensive?
