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Watch Rare Footage of Water Bomber Skimming Water, Refilling [VIDEO]
Last summer, Grant County Sheriff's Marine Patrol officers captured this video of a fire fighting water bomber refilling on the Columbia River just below Vantage. They share it recently on their Facebook page.
The aircraft looks to be a WWII-era PBY Catalina, a widely used 'flying boat' that could land on water, or traditional airfields...