Aeroflite

Our last Monday night at the Flight Deck restaurant in South Lake Tahoe. This cool aircraft landed and took on fuel.  Most the the guys in the place stood on the outside deck when it taxied up and watched until it shut down it's twin turbo props.  Then there was a flurry of us looking up Aeroflite, a Canandian company that leases firefighting aircraft.  This particular one can scoop up 1600 gallons of water off a lake or resevoir in 12 seconds while skimming along the surface.  I would LOVE to see that!  I can't imagine the drag from the contact with the water plus the rapid increase in weight and how the pilots must compensate for that while "in flight".  No wonder it has two powerful engines and an

enormous tail section.