Last aviation post of the day: the world's biggest fire truck

Quite amazing footage from Fox 11 in Los Angeles of a specially modified 747 serving as a fire-fighting tanker today. The plane is flying extremely low-and-slow to dump retardant in an attempt to contain the LA-area wildfires. From this site.

See web-only content:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2009/09/last-aviation-post-of-the-day-the-worlds-biggest-fire-truck/24381/
For the first two or three minutes of this video I found it hard to believe it was live footage of an actual airplane, rather than a computerized simulation. Better use of local-TV live cams than following cops in a standard highway chase! (Thanks to Joseph Musco.)

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2009/09/last-aviation-post-of-the-day-the-worlds-biggest-fire-truck/24381/