LAT

Nevada Air Guard Doubles Certified Pilots During Aerial Firefighting Training

By Staff Sgt. Matthew Greiner, 152nd Airlift Wing GOWEN FIELD, Idaho -- The Nevada Air National Guard’s 152nd Operations Group upgraded four pilots to aircraft...

CAL FIRE and US Forest Service Begin Aerial Firefighting Training

Earplugs were surely needed Wednesday morning because of the loud planes used to protect the Northstate during wildfires. Ahead of fire season, CAL FIRE and...

Bridger Aerospace Sends Crews to Battle New Mexico Wildfires

Bridger Aerospace is sending crews to battle a wildfire in New Mexico. The company’s super scooper planes drop over 1,400 gallons of water in...

Neptune Aviation Pilot Training – Aircraft System and Fire Traffic Area Focused

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

San Diego Success! – Tangent Link’s Aerial Firefighting Show Returns to North America

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

Air crews invaluable in fight against Arizona wildfires

The Crooks Fire has burned more than 9,000 acres and on Wednesday some aerial crews were grounded because of the lack of visibility because...

First locally based Large Air Tanker to fight WA bushfires

The McGowan Labor Government has committed $11 million over four years in the 2022-23 State Budget to secure the first Large Air Tanker (LAT)...

Greece Under Fire

Story by Stamatia Kal, Photos by John Pitsakis The 2021 fire season saw Greece at the forefront of the world stage as the most devastating...

Conair’s Q-400AT- The Right Place at the Right Time

While only a small percentage of wildfires grow into complex infernos, it is these select few that cause the most damage. Wildfires in the...

Latest Print Edition

Latest articles

00:00
00:00