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Converted 747 now largest fire-fighting tanker plane
It can deliver nearly 20,000 gallons of water or fire retardant per flight, almost twice the capacity of the next-biggest tanker. Bigger is always better... (www.avweb.com) 기타...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Eventually they'll have A380s and Antonovs
What about the DC10, I would have figured that they would have been very close in capacity!
saw it at Sacramento last month -- beautiful... hope I DON'T see it this fall's fire season
OLD NEWS ALERT!!! They have had this since 2006!
Not the first-ever, correct. But this ex-Delta airframe is bigger (-400) than the defunct Evergreen variants (-100).
It was actually an Ex Evergreen 747-400. Was stored in Victorville where a heavy C check was performed, then flown to KMZJ, Pinal Airpark, There she was painted and and the tanks which were taken from the original Supertanker were Reinstalled into the Global Tanker.
Next time I'm at a baking-hot airshow it would be nice for that plane to do a flyover and dump water to cool off the spectators.