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Check Out This Crazy Cool Video of the 10 Tanker DC-10 Firefighter Doing a Drop.

July 18, 2020 Tom Demerly

10 Tanker’s Converted DC-10 Hits Wildfire Near St. George, Utah, Through Heavy Smoke. There are plenty of remarkable videos of the air crews from 10 Tanker using their unique, converted DC-10 aerial firefighters to battle […]

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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 […]

Aviation

We have visited California Firefighting Hub: San Bernardino Airtanker Base

September 17, 2014 David Cenciotti

We have visited the Airtanker Firefighting Hub in California. Located on the former grounds of Norton Air Force Base, closed under the BRAC (Base Realignment And Closure) proceedings in the early 1990s, San Bernardino International […]

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Video of DC-10 Supertanker’s fire retardant drop on a mountain

September 15, 2014 David Cenciotti

DC10 Air Tanker fighting a fire on a mountain A cool video shows the DC10 Air Tanker (known as “Supertanker”) performing a nose dive (and subsequent high-G load pull-up) to drop fire retardant over a […]

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Incredible video from the receiving end of a DC-10 Supertanker’s fire retardant drop

May 16, 2014 David Cenciotti

DC-10 Supertanker dropping fire retardant as seen from the fire point of view…. KUSI photojournalist Taylor Schuss filmed the DC10 Air Tanker (unofficially dubbed “Supertanker”) fighting the Cocos Fire in San Marcos, California, from the […]

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