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Insights and Analysis: Mapping the Bushfire Outlook with TracPlus

INTRODUCTION As Australia braces itself for the Spring 2023 season, the stage seems set for a period of heightened vigilance and preparedness in terms of...

Will Increased Risk Bring Canada’s Air Force into the Aerial Wildfire Fight?

By Nancy Argyle During the spring and summer of 2023, a concerned world watched as Canada burned. Toxic smoke from 29 mega-fires, each exceeding 100,000...

Lowest Price Technically Acceptable

Perspectives from Both Sides and How We Move Forward Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) is a government contracting method in which the award is made...

AFF Greece in Pictures

The third and final installment of the Tangent Link Aerial Firefighting show for 2023 has just concluded in Greece. Take a look at some...

Aerial Firefighting APAC 2023 – A Dubbo Success Story

When looking through the previous locations of the Tangent Link Aerial Firefighting series of conferences with names like Athens, Greece, Nimes, France, Sacramento, California...

Australian Transport Safety Bureau Releases Preliminary 737 Crash Report

A Boeing 737 firebombing aircraft which crashed in Western Australia's south earlier this year hit a ridge line while dropping retardant, a preliminary investigation has revealed. The Large Air...

10 Tanker Deploys to Florida for First Time

10 Tanker Air Carrier's Tanker 911 has deployed to the newly upgraded fire base in Lake City, just south of the Florida/Georgia border for...

Coulson Aviation Provides Aerial Firefighting Support to Argentina Through Canadian Commercial Corporation

Port Alberni, B.C. – February 22, 2023 - Coulson Aviation announced that it is providing aerial firefighting support services to Argentina via a CDN $6.8...

Look inside the DC-10 Airtanker That Gives Firefighters the Advantage Against Wildfires

AUSTIN, Texas — Battling wildfires has air tankers taking off all day, almost every day from the Austin Airport. The local air tanker base was activated because...

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