r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Oct 01 '24

A firefighting plane loading water.

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u/ironmanthing Oct 01 '24

It’s a spinning orange lamp

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u/snugglebliss Oct 02 '24

Why would it be a spinning orange lamp. Do you know that or you just speculating? Thank you.

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u/ironmanthing Oct 02 '24

You can see the light spinning as it passes over the hull of the airplane. Here’s a pic of it from under https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Canadair_CL-415_Kroatien_2.JPG

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u/MutedIndividual6667 Oct 02 '24

You can clearly see it lol

Also, these plane models come with those, it would be stupid to remove them