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>> pretty good, at this point. >> reporter: a touch of pilot bravado, but at his core, he's a firefighter. >> to me, it's all the pilots that are doing this are just like the regular firefighters that you see anywhere. it's just we do it in the air. >> reporter: but nothing compares to this jumbo jet. if you were a passenger on a 747, this is where you'd be sitting. instead, on this plane, they've got ten tanks carrying 20,000 gallons of fire retardant and/or foam, 90 tons of fire-fighting artillery. and these cannons also have control. >> they can meter it to any distance and any thickness th...

Doors. >> well, these are the exhaust ports for the retardant and the flight engineer is going to choose the proper air pressure and the number of exhaust ports to vary the concentration, depending on what the firefighters on the ground need. >> reporter: on the ground or in the air, it's one big team. >> all the guys that do this, to me, i think, are the best and it's an honor to be a part of that group. >> reporter: no doubt this massive supertanker is a welcome in the war against wildfires. >> reporter: right now you're looking at some of the modern weaponry, at least the gauges inside this...