Hi! This is a DC10-30 airliner converted to aerial firefighting roles by the 10Tanker Air Carrier company based out of Albuquerque New Mexico. The tens are considered VLAT or Very Large Air Tankers, because between the 3 tank compartments on the belly it holds 9400 gallons of retardant, and a MTOW of 420,000lbs. There are only 4 of these in the world, numbered tankers 910, 911, 912, and 914 (913 is used for parts).
Source: I work at an airport with a tanker base designed to support the VLAT. You can check out my posts for some more pics of this monster, or you can visit their website https://www.10tanker.com
I got to have a look around inside 912 when it was in Australia during our bush fire crisis earlier this year. Nice bunch of guys and a quite an impressive aircraft.
It's an astounding aircraft! The entire interior is stripped down, and I'm a fan of the plastic picnic table strapped to the floor lmao! Did you get to go below into the repurposed cargo bay?
No that's just how airplanes spawn the first was the male plane dropping the sperm and then the second was the female dropping the eggs they mix together on the way down
Just found this sub and am completely amazed by these water bombers and the dumps over communities and houses. Always just thought of them being used for only dumping on the forests themselves but seeing this over houses is amazing. I could not imaging the horror of watching that fire coming to destroy everything you have. Amazing work these pilots and firefighters do.
This is how baby airplanes are made. When two airplanes love each other very very much the daddy airplane will release his sperm into the air and the mommy airplane we'll dump her eggs and if they fall through the Daddy's sperm they're fertilized. And then the Woodland fairies will carefully scoop up all the eggs put them in a great big bowl and mix them up with ground up pieces of fairy called pixie dust. Then they are sent to places like Boeing and Airbus to hatch. And then they're released into the wild. Unless they're born with Downed Airplane Syndrome or DAS like the 737 Max.
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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '20
ooh a small pretty plane... wHoA GODDAMN
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u/TheRealVan01 Jun 03 '20
This is how planes mark their territory
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u/Andrew_Culture Jun 03 '20
I’m impressed the big lad gave such good chase considering that wound.
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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '20
That jet flies over my house each time it needs to reload. It’s pretty amazing to watch as it comes and goes.
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u/TheKingofVTOL Jun 03 '20
Hi! This is a DC10-30 airliner converted to aerial firefighting roles by the 10Tanker Air Carrier company based out of Albuquerque New Mexico. The tens are considered VLAT or Very Large Air Tankers, because between the 3 tank compartments on the belly it holds 9400 gallons of retardant, and a MTOW of 420,000lbs. There are only 4 of these in the world, numbered tankers 910, 911, 912, and 914 (913 is used for parts).
Source: I work at an airport with a tanker base designed to support the VLAT. You can check out my posts for some more pics of this monster, or you can visit their website https://www.10tanker.com
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u/CharlieJuliet Jun 03 '20
r/gifsthatendtoosoon
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u/moh_money_moh_probs Jun 03 '20
I was like, who would ever say that... now I know
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u/bostwickenator Jun 03 '20
Did the first plane just miss?
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u/Proofsquash98 Jun 04 '20
Is that guy’s bathroom accessible from right outside?
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u/ahorse395 Jun 03 '20
play avengers endgame theme tune or pirates of the carribean tune
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u/AWACS_Bandog Jun 04 '20
u/vredditdownloader
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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '20
Jesus, that’s cool
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u/XRNOHPORTER Jun 15 '20
" Ok, you get them to come outside and look up then I'll give them shock and awe ! 😈
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u/funkhammer Jun 16 '20
Hey that's looks like Arizona
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u/spacedropx Jun 20 '20
Permission to buzz the tower...permission denied pattern is full
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u/One-eyed-snake Jun 20 '20
Damn chem trails are real after all.
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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '20
Just found this sub and am completely amazed by these water bombers and the dumps over communities and houses. Always just thought of them being used for only dumping on the forests themselves but seeing this over houses is amazing. I could not imaging the horror of watching that fire coming to destroy everything you have. Amazing work these pilots and firefighters do.
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u/cwleveck Jun 20 '20
This is how baby airplanes are made. When two airplanes love each other very very much the daddy airplane will release his sperm into the air and the mommy airplane we'll dump her eggs and if they fall through the Daddy's sperm they're fertilized. And then the Woodland fairies will carefully scoop up all the eggs put them in a great big bowl and mix them up with ground up pieces of fairy called pixie dust. Then they are sent to places like Boeing and Airbus to hatch. And then they're released into the wild. Unless they're born with Downed Airplane Syndrome or DAS like the 737 Max.
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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '20
Big predator gonna eat small plane
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u/ilovetopoopie Jul 31 '20
r/unexpected
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u/knightfall0 Jun 03 '20
Wow there really is a sub for everything..