High-Volume Airborne Fluids Handling Technologies To Fight Wildfires

TBMG-8710

11/01/2010

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NASA recently partnered with the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) on a project to examine mission suitability and recommend policies and procedures for the use of very large aerial firefighting aircraft such as the Boeing 747 and DC-10 aerial retardant delivery aircraft. The aircraft under study included a 10Tanker DC-10 and an Evergreen B-747. NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center and Ames Research Center worked with the USFS to help determine the safe flight envelope for these Very Large Air Tanker (VLAT) aircraft for the USFS and the Department of the Interior (DOI). This new generation of “supertankers” includes aircraft like these that have as much as four times the delivery capacity of the previous generation of aerial firefighting aircraft.

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"High-Volume Airborne Fluids Handling Technologies To Fight Wildfires," Mobility Engineering, November 1, 2010.
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Nov 1, 2010
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TBMG-8710
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English