🚒 Firefighting Aircraft Water Drop Pattern on a Forest Fire: Scooper Cycle, Droplet Drift and Coverage Lab

A scooper flying boat skims a lake, flies to a forest fire and drops on a hillside: scoop mass flow, stall and thrust limits, slug break-up and droplet drift, coverage level in gal/100 ft2, and a cellular fire-spread model with fuel wetting. An experiment sweeps release height and speed against an analytic droplet trajectory.