2025年1月7日 · The 10 Tanker Air Carrier DC-10 "Tanker 911" in action at the Powerhouse brush fire on June 2, 2013. Tanker 911 makes four consecutive Phoschek drops on one ...

2025年1月14日 · ‘It’s a nightmare': DC 10 pilot describes battling Calif. wildfires Capt. RK Smithley has helped drop over 175,000 gallons of fire retardant during more than a dozen flights in two days ...

2012年3月8日 · One fire that 10 Tanker responded to was a small brush fire located on a nature preserve. 10 Tanker was directed to drop a line to prevent the fire from spreading deeper into the nature preserve. After the line was dropped, the incident commander told them to return to base, reload, and return to the fire, which the aircraft responded they had ...

2020年7月18日 · As dark smoke billows up from the brush fire, the 10 Tanker DC-10 flies through the conflagration to make its drop accurately. As amazing as this video is, it must have looked even more...

2025年1月18日 · I'm a third-generation firefighter — and I'm helping to battle the LA fires from the air in a DC-10 fire bomber. Here's how we do it.

2012年9月21日 · 10 Tanker Air Carrier says their DC-10 can haul retardant to a fire at less than half the cost of a BAe-146 air tanker.

2014年5月15日 · The video shows one of the DC-10 very large air tankers making a drop on the San Miguelito Fire south of Lompoc, California. More information about the fire can be found at webpronews. The DC-10 carries 11, 600 gallons of retardant.

DC-10 Tanker Air Carrier A cool look at “Tanker 911” in action at the Powerhouse brush fire in California in June 2013. The pilots that fly these tankers are amazing as it’s incredibly dangerous to fly this low and then drop thousands of pounds of fire retardant.

2025年1月14日 · The DC-10 air tanker, manufactured by McDonnell Douglas, is a modified version of the wide-body passenger aircraft first introduced in the 1970s. Known for its ability to carry large loads, the tanker can hold up to 12,000 gallons of fire retardant—a capacity that makes it especially effective for wildfire suppression.

2025年1月20日 · Equipped with tanks capable of holding 12,000 gallons of fire retardant—a payload weighing nearly 100,000 pounds—the DC-10s deliver an immense volume of fire suppression in a single pass.