Air France has retired all of theirs. They were going to, anyway, but the pandemic caused them to move up the retirement date by two years.
Assuming that there were the airports to accommodate them, they might make for one hell of a fire-bomber.
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Will it fly low and slow enough?
Low, yes. Slow, dunno.
Not enough concrete rated to serve it for it to be practical. It would drop about 66% more than a 747 water bomber, but that hasn’t made an impact for a similar reason. Too long to turn around.
Threshold speed is 140k, with VMC somewhere in the 118-122k range, assuming all engines functioning.
CAT III approach speed starts at 180k, so it could do the low and slow OK.
Delta is retiring its 777s also.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Emirates is retiring 40% of theirs. Guess that A380 rating I've been lusting after won't come as handy as I thought.
Silly me, I thought you meant .380s. I figured at least a 9mm.
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