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November 8, 2024

Editorial – Training the Next Generation

March 10, 2021

How many people can say they fight fires from the sky? Pilots flying the CL-415EAF (Super Scooper) aircraft from Bridger Aerospace skim a water...

Editorial – 2020 Can Shove It!

January 5, 2021

There, I said it. 2020 has been such a staggeringly difficult year for so many people. As we all struggle with the daily complexities...

Our ‘New Normal’ – The Drop May/June 2020

May 11, 2020

In early March of this year, the AerialFire team headed to Sacramento for the Aerial Firefighting North America show. Little did we know that...

COVID-19 Could Make This Year’s Wildfire Season More Dangerous

April 13, 2020

On March 25, the National Weather Service issued a “red flag warning” for thousands of acres stretching across six Western states, including New Mexico,...

The Drop: Australia Can’t Catch a Break

March 23, 2020

I recently returned from a trip to Australia, and I can tell you, the extensive fires you were seeing on the news were not...

Aerial Firefighting North America 2020 Prepares for Opening Next Week

February 26, 2020

Tangent Link’s Aerial Firefighting North America 2020 (AFF North America 2020) Conference and Exhibition is the must-attend event for anyone involved in the aerial firefighting domain. Hosted at McClellan...

Refuge Notebook: Managing Wildfire with Data

December 9, 2019

When you think of data-driven careers, the natural resource field is probably not the first profession that comes to mind. I envision a guy...

The Catastrophic Bushfire Season is an Opportunity For Leadership — If Only Someone Would Seize It

November 25, 2019

It has been a week of catastrophe in Australia. For so many people, and so many communities, there have been days and nights of sleeplessness,...

Moving the Safety Needle

September 27, 2019

As I read the latest press release from the United States Helicopter Safety Team (USHST), I was saddened to see that if the accident...

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Coulson Aviation Extends Aerial Firefighting Support to South America via New Contract in Chile for the Boeing 737 FireLiner

Buffalo Seeks Next Generation of Pilots to Fight Wildfires

Recoil’s Tsunami Aerial Firefighting System T650-E Tank Helps Control Major Korean Fire

Dallas Avionics Adds Cody Klaehn

Fire Crews use Heli-Hydrant for its First Time to Fight ‘Garden Fire’

Conair Expands Inhouse NDT Capability Critical for Safe Aerial Firefighting Operations

Sikorsky and Rain Successfully Demonstrate Autonomous Flight with Wildfire Mission Autonomy to Rapidly Find and Suppress Test Fires

Delta State University Awarded $1,000,000 Federal Grant to Acquire Groundbreaking Flight Simulator

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