Overview
Over 400 vivid color photos show aircraft used around the globe to fight forest and open-range fires. Includes fire-extinguishing planes known as airtankers, firefighting helicopters, transports, and direction and command planes essential to successful firefighting. Many rare, never-before-published images show firefighting aircraft in action. The detailed text provides technical descriptions of forest fire fighting and speculates on the future of firefighting aviation. This book is a must for every reader fascinated by aviation or firefighting.
- | Author: Wolfgang Jendsch
- | Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
- | Publication Date: Sep 12, 2008
- | Number of Pages: 352 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0764330683
- | ISBN-13: 9780764330681
