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A U.S. government-built app for situational awareness is bringing wildland firefighting into the internet age. Originating as a product of...

By Jennifer Swaine As a qualified engineer and helicopter pilot who had faced off against many bushfires, Jason Schellaars understood...

Safety experts agree that at least 70% of aviation accidents are attributable to the pilot. NASA scientists report that most...

In 2001, I had my first full-time job in wildfire aviation as a helitack Fire Captain. Ignorance was bliss for...

By Marcos Antonio Camargo When I started writing this article, we were contacted for another firefighting operation in the fields...

When Neptune Aviation Services planned to replace its legacy fleet of piston-driven Lockheed P2V Neptunes with BAe 146 regional jets,...

After a two-year hiatus from hosting the aerial firefighting show in the United States, Tangent Link’s Aerial Fire Fighting North...

When looking at examples of interagency cooperation, Charlotte County, Florida, has a standard that would make many others jealous. As...

Cyprus wants an exemption from European Union sanctions against Russia for the invasion of Ukraine to lease Russian-made helicopters designed...

Sikorsky Firehawk helicopters, which attack wildfires and rescue people, have been called a game-changer. “It does provide a lot of...