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The helicopter had an especially strong downwash that could blow the smoke away from the firefighters Fire suppression kit on display at the Museum of Aviation. The Huskie entered service in late 1958 with the United States Air Force. It was also adopted by the United States Navy and United States Marine Corp, but not the United States Army.
A wide variety of helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft are used for aerial firefighting. In 2003, it was reported that "The U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management own, lease, or contract for nearly 1,000 aircraft each fire season, with annual expenditures in excess of US$250 million in recent years".
Aerial firefighting helicopters (9 P) Pages in category "Aerial firefighting aircraft" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
New York's Bravest - A Firefighting Odyssey (2005) Only the Brave (2017) The Price of Fire (1960), National Film Board of Canada, educational documentary; Pyromania (TV Mania, S01E03) [12] Q.E.D. The Burning Question: A Case of Spontaneous Human Combustion (BBC TV 1998) Ricky's Rib Shack, a Firefighter's Journey (2008) [13] Toxic Hot Seat (HBO ...
Budgie the Little Helicopter is a British animated television series, relating to a fictional helicopter and his friends, based on a series of children's books. [4] The characters were based on the books by Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York . [ 5 ]
New video footage shows what Ukriane said it a world-first: one of its seaborne drones destroying a flying target. The clip purports to show a Ukrainian Magura V5 sea drone destroying a Russian Mi ...
In 1941, Igor Sikorsky fitted utility floats (also called pontoons) to the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300, making the first practical amphibious helicopter. [3] [5] In the 1940s and 1950s, some models of helicopter such as the Bell 47 and 48 and the Sikorsky R-4 and R-6 [6] were fitted with utility floats so that they could rest on both water and land.
Rescue is a 13-part documentary series created, directed and filmed by Paul Berriff. It focused on the air-sea rescue work of "Rescue 137", a Sea King belonging to 202 Sqn, Royal Air Force Search and Rescue Force in and around their base at RAF Lossiemouth, Scotland and the North Sea over a period of a year between 1988 -1989.