Name: How The $30 Million 'Super Scooper' Plane Was Built To Fight Wildfires
Uploaded: 2021-05-26T03:58:41.000Z
Duration: 8 min 16 s
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These pilots are flying what's called a Super Scooper.

At around $30 million, it's one of the most expensive

Tim Sheehy: It's literally a boat with giant wings,

It looks like no other plane in the world.

Narrator: The CL-415 Enhanced Aerial Firefighter

can scoop and drop 1,400 gallons of water on wildfires

which could only drop 200 gallons of water at a time.

Sheehy: $30 million is very expensive for any aircraft.

However, it's actually the most cost-effective

aerial firefighting, and Insider got an up-close look

with Bridger Aerospace to see how this aircraft

Airplanes have been used to fight wildfires

but early attempts weren't nearly as effective.

Sheehy: In the '50s and '60s, almost all the aircraft

and they were used in a very haphazard, provisional manner.

Sheehy: Not really effective in today's world,

but at the time, it was the best they could do.

to design a plane specifically to fight fires.

Narrator: Which Viking Air Ltd. modernized in 2020,

retrofitting the CL-215 with a new avionics system,

and created, essentially, a new airplane.

Sheehy: When you look at them, they don't necessarily

look like they'd be an aerobatic or stunt plane.

We're taking a plane almost the size of a C-130,

we're flying it into extremely narrow canyons,

banking high-g turns at a high rate of turn.

in that dangerous of an environment is very rare.

or aerodynamic devices that pilots use to adjust

those flight-control surfaces are supersized.

Sheehy: That's important, because when you're flying

a lot of elevator area to be able to move that aircraft

as quickly as you need to at those low speeds.

Narrator: That's why this rudder is 25 square feet larger

or just over 100 miles per hour, to perform a scoop.

That's almost half the aircraft's standard cruising speed.

Sheehy: Once you've identified your scoop site

Sheehy: The way the aircraft picks up water,

And it scoops it through what you see here,

two probes on either side of the keel of the aircraft,

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How The $30 Million 'Super Scooper' Plane Was Built To Fight Wildfires

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