43 Grupo - Entrevista para Glub Glub

Video from the channel Canadair 415 about Canadair CL-415, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 4:08. Language: Spanish. Video type: Onboard.

Members of the Air Force's 43rd Group show their work and their aircraft to the programme Glub Glub. One of them shows the operations board, where flights, crews, aircraft and timings are planned.

During the walk-around, they explain that the aircraft is about 30 metres in wingspan and about 20 metres long, and that what look like four compartments are actually two tanks, which discharge through doors, two on each side. In the cockpit, the flight engineer operates the loading control, a digital indicator shows how the tanks fill, and a round "water drop" button releases the water. If the system fails, emergency levers open the doors mechanically.

The unit's main mission is putting out forest fires, as well as supporting search and rescue missions.