See the US military's special C-130 Hercules water bombers that are joining the LA wildfire fight
The Pentagon sent C-130 MAFFS-equipped aircraft to fight the LA fires. The water bombers drop nearly 14 tons of fire retardant in under five seconds.
Take the pilot’s seat as C-130 aircraft flies over California wildfire and drops retardant
The planes can “discharge their entire load of up to 3,000 gallons of retardant in less than five seconds, covering an area one-quarter of a mile long by 100 feet wide, or they can make variable drops ...
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US: C-130 Pilots Confront Hughes Fire with Rapid Retardant Drops
On2, 2025, U.S. Air National Guard Maj. John-Mark Koetitz piloted a C-130J Super Hercules over the Hughes Fire in Castaic, ...
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See what battling California wildfires look like from cockpit of a C-130 aircraft
Equipped with airborne fire-fighting systems, C-130 Super Hercules planes are flying missions over the wildfires in Southern California that started earlier this month. California Air National ...
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US: Pilots Tackle Hughes Fire from C-130 Cockpit in Wildfire Battle
As the Hughes Fire rages near Castaic on4, 2025, U.S. Air National Guard Maj. Cameron Shepard and Capt. Carlos Puga are hard ...
Hughes Fire: California Air National Guard releases video showing cockpit view of plane fighting the blaze
A video shows the cockpit view of California Air National Guard pilots flying low and dropping fire retardant over the Hughes Fire in Los Angeles County.
Inside the cockpit: National Guard air tanker attacks Hughes Fire
U.S. Air National Guard Maj. John-Mark Koetitz, a pilot with the 115th Airlift Squadron, pilots a California National Guard ...
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See the US military's special C-130 Hercules water bombers that are joining the LA wildfire fight
When deployed as a firefighting aircraft, the C-130 can be equipped with a Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS) unit to support other air tankers in aerial suppression. The MAFFS units ...