The National Institute for Aviation Research’s Werx MRO program enters agreement on passenger-to-freighter conversions for Precision Aircraft Solutions.
The National Institute for Aviation Research’s Werx MRO program enters agreement on passenger-to-freighter conversions for Precision Aircraft Solutions.
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How aerial firefighters battle blazes from the skies Rob Verger
The most dramatic way to fight a fire is from the sky.
An air tanker may fly about 150 feet off the ground at 161 miles per hour and can paint up to a mile-long line of retardant on the ground. A big helicopter could dump as much as 2,000 gallons of water to try to save a house. And smokejumpers fling themselves from airplanes 3,000 feet above their landing area below to snuff out a small fire in a remote area before it gets bigger.
Right now, California is home to two historically enormous blazes: the SCU and LNU Lightning Complex fires. The state is using aircraft to combat the two huge conflagrations. “They keep swapping positions for the second- and third-largest wildfires in our state history, unfortunately,” Brice Bennett, a spokesperson for CalFire, told Popular Science earlier this week. All the fires in the state right now cover an area larger than 1.25 million acres. “We’re dealing