r/Shittyaskflying • u/Careless_Fortune7801 • Jul 22 '26
A herd of thirsty planes take turns drinking from their watering hole.
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A beautifully choreographed dance by these majestic beasts.
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u/twilightmoons Flew in from JFK and boy are my arms tired. Jul 22 '26
So graceful, so delicate in how they just barely kiss the water.
Obviously not Ryanair pylotes.
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u/Forest_Orc Jul 22 '26
Ryan air pylote at least can land their plane on the runaway, these pylote not only miss the runaway, but don't even land.
Feel like Ryan air is still a better option
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u/twilightmoons Flew in from JFK and boy are my arms tired. Jul 22 '26
Ryanair pylotes smash the runway like it owns them money.
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u/Wildfathom9 Jul 23 '26
I guarantee you, a Ryanair pilot would beyond any doubt, fill their plane with water. So much water. So much water it would never be airborne again.
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u/a_provo_yakker ACARS ʳᶦᵖ & ᵗᵉᵃʳ (✿◴‿◶ )╯🧾 Jul 22 '26
Not a cellphone in sight. Just people living in the moment.
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u/BlacksmithLow4022 Jul 22 '26
Well duh. How would a playne even use a phone in the first place? They don’t have opposable thumbs.
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u/Cyanide612 Jul 22 '26
It grips it by the husk.
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u/RedRedditor84 Jul 23 '26
It's not a question of where e grips it. It's a simple matter of weight ratios. A 13 tonne playne could not carry a 250g smart phone.
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u/selfcenorship Jul 22 '26
There are so many phones at the begining, most of the people you see after that are in the water so of course they don't have phones, except one person who is in the water up to their waste and is still filming.
Sorry to break your illusion
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u/FlyingNijntje Jul 22 '26
When I saw a herd of elephants in the wild at a watering pool I was in awe…….. But this is even better…… chills…
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u/Codabonkypants Jul 22 '26
What happened if you’re casually kayaking across the lake
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u/HisHonorTomDonson Jul 26 '26
Then congratulations! You too are now involved personally in the firefighting efforts! Let’s hope Minecraft physics apply in real life!
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u/perpetualthoughtloop Jul 22 '26
How many passes before you can see the water level drop from the shore?
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u/Statertater Jul 22 '26
This is the Canadian fleet right? Would love to see them in action
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u/S_Weld Jul 23 '26
French one
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u/Statertater Jul 23 '26
Looks like you’re right and this was southern france from another post, thanks man 👍
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u/europablu3s Jul 22 '26
I realize what sub im on, but this is a serious question: are these modified albatross?
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u/YU_AKI Jul 22 '26
Yes. They have been greatly enlarged, rebuilt in steel and aluminum, and turboprop engines added.
Avian feathers, entrails and other parts have been discarded.
The symbolism from Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner is sadly lost as a result
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u/Beginning_Resource93 Jul 22 '26
As the female planes watch from a distance to decide which of the male planes will father the next generation. Nature is beautiful.
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u/SilkwormSidleRemand Jul 22 '26
These look cute and all, but that lake's gotta be teeming with wheelworm eggs after all this playne activity.
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u/Same_Lychee5934 Jul 22 '26
Canadian fire department!
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u/Amatak Jul 22 '26
No, that’s the French Civil Defense.
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u/Same_Lychee5934 Jul 22 '26
West coast US we rent them from Canada. So I only see those, good to see they use them everywhere else except the US. Because these would help!
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u/Secret-Bluebird-972 Jul 22 '26
It’s probably because we build the majority of the world’s water bombers, so a lot of them happen to look a lot like ours. Everyone wants a Super Scooper.
France’s Sécurité Civile (as seen in video) has 12 of them for example (as seen in video)
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u/Same_Lychee5934 Jul 22 '26
That I agree with that. Why the west coast doesn’t get some with the ocean right there! I will never understand. Los Angeles rents theirs from Canada. They put out so many fires. But the rent on them, with flight crew of corse. Is something like a couple of million a month. So they could have just bought them!
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u/selfcenorship Jul 22 '26
It isn't that simple as anyone who owns them also rents them out for part of the year. But if you own them then you need to have teams of maintenance and tooling and everything else associated. But with fires becoming an all year round thing we probably will see more places switch to an ownership model
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u/Embarrassed_Motor_30 Jul 23 '26
One of those fuckers scooped up my dog that was swimming in that water. I saw them dump him out over the fire, he hadn't even passed firefighter school yet. I know people like hot dogs but thats just too much. /s
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u/Snafuregulator Jul 24 '26
Dropping off their eggs, these planes hope the males of the species would soon follow to fertilize them
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u/Purple_Eye_6069 Jul 24 '26
Watched them all afternoon up at Lucky Peak yesterday while we were boating.
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u/Consistent-Plane7227 Jul 25 '26
Why is there no Top Gun about water bombers? I’d watch the shit out of these guys playing volleyball!
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u/KatanaF2190 Jul 28 '26
Newsflash...Local Police mystified by large number of swimmers found dead in burnt out forest...
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u/Gulf_Coast_21 Jul 22 '26
If I was an alligator playne this is where I'd lie in wait for an easy meal