As an epilogue, Omega Air continues to refuel US aircraft with ex-Japan Airlines and Dutch KC-10 even after the Air Force ...
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 ...
As wildfires continue to burn in California, the Albuquerque-based 10 Tanker is still hard at work helping ground crews with ...
Thousands of firefighters and volunteers have been working over the last week to tackle the Los Angeles wildfires. Helping in that fight is Albuquerque-based 10 Tanker. Its fleet consists of four ...
To fight the California fires, 10Tanker has four DC-10s and two — ships 912 and 914 — here in San Bernardino at the old Norton Air Force Base ... because we're the biggest tanker out here. This fire ...
The DC-10 is one of dozens of aircraft assisting ... Helicopters are generally dropping water to directly attack the fires, but air tankers — or fire bombers as I like to call them — are ...
As the fires rage in California, NASCAR driver Garrett Smithley is cheering on his dad who is fighting the flames from the ...
RK Smithley works for 10 Tanker Air Carrier, which operates a fleet of four DC-10-30 aircraft specifically modified for aerial firefighting. According to 10 Tanker’s fact sheet on their website, these ...