fire fighting

A Belgian startup is working on a water bomber concept. "Scooping smoothly SEAGLE is designed for safe operations in the most demanding situations. Scooping water from a sleeping lake appears as a quiet task for the pilot while scooping from a windy sea surface can be very stressful. This...

This was inspired by an aeronautical engineering student posting on this forum. His semester project is to design a fire-fighting airplane. What if we start a group design of a new fire-fighting airplane. It cannot be based upon an old military-surplus airframe, but can use military-surplus...