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Eli5: how do water bombers not noseplant when refilling in a body of water?

Water landings are said to be near impossible to pull off for anything but hydroplanes (see also: the Hudson miracle) and yet water bombers do it as a matter of routine. How do they keep from crashing (or at least, losing so much speed that they can't just climb again after scooping up the water) as soon as they hit water?
gpt
First of all, most of these planes are water planes.

They only ever kiss the water and operate in the same speed regime as speed boats, where most of the hull never actually touches the water (not unlike the way a hydrofoil does it). The scoops are located in a way, that they still are submerged during that.

When taking off in a water plane from a standstill, it is acutally more engergy-intensive to lift the body out of the water, to a point that it is only "kissing", than actually fully seperating from the water.

Edit: The difference between this and the Hudson is the shape of the fuselage. Water planes bottoms are shaped much more like a boat hull, while a passenger airliner is much more straight, basically "sucking" the plane down as soon as it touches and thus slowing it down fast (so fast in fact, that most of the time they get very seriously damaged).