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Watch a DC-10 skirt the mountain tops to fight wildfires in Southern California

July 14, 2016 David Cenciotti

Some skills are needed to fly a “wide body” like that! The DC-10 Air Tanker is a standard McDonnell Douglas DC-10 airliner that was converted to carry up to 12,000 US gallons (45,000 liters) of […]