Water bombers

The government of Manitoba has recently upgraded its fleet of water bombers for fighting forest fires. This image shows a Canadian-made Bombardier 415 aircraft, which is one of the new planes that is custom built for scooping up water from a lake and then releasing the water over a forest fire.

How does the pilot know when to release the water to hit the targeted fire? We will study the underlying physics in chapter 3.

To see one of our water bombers fighting a fire in northern Manitoba, click here.

The image on the left is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Click here for its description page