Experts Predict Devastating Ariz. Wildfire Season
West News • February 3, 2006
Dry conditions this year and heavy moisture last year could combine to make Arizona's imminent wildfire season the most devastating yet, experts told Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano at a roundtable ...
Insurance Journal is not responsible for the content of the message below.
Subject: Il-76 waterbomber
Posted On: February 6, 2006, 8:15 am CST
Posted By: John Anderson
Comment:
For the first time in over ten (10) years,
the international aviation press has covered the only proven super-large firefighting aircraft. This, at a time Mark Rey, of the USDA, is trying to convince audiences that smaller-volume firefighting aircraft are sufficient to address the US' needs.
The insurance industry would do well to examine the December '05 edition of AIR International (UK) to find out which of the superlarge (and one merely large) jet aircraft that journal finds is truly ready to fight wildfire.
Reportedly, the US Forest Service has made use of the IL-76 waterbomber 'illegal'. What they really mean to say is that policy was specially crafted to keep the IL-76 waterbomber out of service in the US.
West News 
Subject: Il-76 waterbomber
the international aviation press has covered the only proven super-large firefighting aircraft. This, at a time Mark Rey, of the USDA, is trying to convince audiences that smaller-volume firefighting aircraft are sufficient to address the US' needs.
The insurance industry would do well to examine the December '05 edition of AIR International (UK) to find out which of the superlarge (and one merely large) jet aircraft that journal finds is truly ready to fight wildfire.
Reportedly, the US Forest Service has made use of the IL-76 waterbomber 'illegal'. What they really mean to say is that policy was specially crafted to keep the IL-76 waterbomber out of service in the US.