Today Single Engine Air Tanker (SEAT) contracts require the contractor to create and implement a Safety Management System (SMS). This...

A friend recently sent me a quote that he found on the Internet … “Everyone wants to be happy. No...

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For what looks to be a potentially bad year for wildland fire in the central United States, the Texas AASF...

OREGON — What started out in 1978 as a home project in a Portland garage to build a spray system for...

A wildfire April 22nd burned 11,000 acres near Thedford, Nebraska threatening at one point to spread to buildings in the...

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Smoke from a wildland fire seems to draw general aviation aircraft much the same as the flame from a candle...

When air tanker crews go on duty each year they are often on the road three to maybe even six...

The B747-400 SuperTanker is the true “Next Gen” air tanker. It joins the world's fleet of aerial firefighting tankers not...