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McCook Airport Will be One of Five Locations for Nebraska Forest Service

McCOOK, Neb. — Fighting fires by air will get a boost from below at the McCook Ben Nelson Regional Airport. The McCook City Council voted...

OC Fire Authority Gets Help From SCE to Trial Nighttime Firefighting

Nighttime aerial firefighting equipment that helped knock down Australian wildfires last year will be tested in Orange County over the next five months. Starting July...

Alaska Fire Service Uses Drone on Swan Lake Fire

The Alaska Fire Service recently released a video showcasing their latest tool used in aerial firefighting UAS technology. The department's UAS, operated by drone...

Dave Nordquist – A long road to success.

Like many in the aviation field, Dave Nordquist's passion for aviation started at an early age. At age five, Nordquist was given his first...

Balkan area governments use Air Tractor AT-802s in Firefighting efforts during 2019 fires.

This year preparations of Balkan governments for the summer firefighting season 2019 again saw local Air Tractor AT-802 operators cooperating with Valencia, Spain-based Air...

Pioneers of Argentina aerial firefighting

Aerial firefighting in Argentina started in 1991 in Córdoba province. The government in the 1990s flew two Cessna C-188 aircraft initially tasked for aerial...

The Drop – Summer editorial

Here we are into the second issue of AerialFire after breaking out as a separate publication from its sister publication, AgAir Update, due to...

Bridger Aerospace develops advanced firefighting system

Bridger Aerospace has developed an advanced firefighting surveillance system using integrated technologies from Ascent Vision Technologies (AVT) and Latitude. The system, Gen V, incorporates a...

Strong showing for UTA in unmanned aerial vehicle competition

Yan Wan, an associate professor of electrical engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington and an expert in multiple unmanned aerial vehicle, or...

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