Great footage of Airtankers in action

Happy New Year everyone, a couple of days late. A friend told me about this very cool video of a P-3 Orion in action so I am sharing it with you today. Beautiful footage!

Tomorrow, I'll be starting a new series of articles on fog and other visibility concerns as applies to flying fires. Stay tuned.

Addendum: A couple of tanker pilot friends pointed out to me that much of the footage in this video is several years old. But it is a great montage of tanker footage. Enjoy!

Updated on August 3, 2015: The US Forest Service terminated its contract with Aero-Union for their Lockheed P-3's, going out of business a month later. (see my articles of July 30, 2011, August 17, 2011, and January 18, 2012).