Nevada Air National Guard Requested for Firefighting Effort
The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) has requested two Department of Defense C-130 aircraft equipped with Modular Airborne Fire Fighting ...
Tag: MAFFS
MAFFS Enabled C-130 Aircraft Assisting Fire Suppression Efforts
BOISE, Idaho – Two modular airborne firefighting systems (MAFFS) enabled U.S. Air Force C-130 aircraft arrived at Boise Tanker Base, ...
Embraer Concludes Flight Tests for Firefighting Capability for the C-390 Millennium
Gavião Peixoto, Brazil – September 5th, 2022 – Embraer has successfully completed the flight test of the certification campaign for ...
302 AW Airmen Embody Agile Combat Employment via Aerial Firefighting
PETERSON SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. -- In January 2022, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., signed the service’s ...
Airborne Firefighting Units Participate in Interagency Spring Training in Idaho
By Staff Sgt. Matthew Greiner 152nd Airlift Wing Less than two years after the most devastating firefighting season in the ...
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 ...
Why fighting wildfires is the hardest flying Air Force crews do outside combat
Forget what you’ve seen in movies: flying low and slow in large fixed-wing aircraft is tough to do. It is ...
Newly constructed MAFFS ground tanks give Southern California a cutting edge in aerial firefighting capabilities
Finalizing construction for a massive air-tanker base upgrade, the California Air National Guard's 146th Airlift Wing (146 AW) completed the ...
Reserve C-130 aerial firefighting teams fly during second busiest wildfire season
The 302nd Airlift Wing has three C-130 Hercules aircraft flying sorties out of McClellan Air Tanker Base this year in Sacramento County, ...
Additional aircraft join CalFire roster, with more on the way
A dozen extra firefighting planes and helicopters joined CalFire last week. Each has taken to the air since in what's ...
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