While Super Pumas have been utilising bucket systems for fire attacks, two belly-mounted water tank options are also coming to the fore: the Firecat and, soon, the United Rotorcraft/Dart Aerospace...
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British Columbia-based Contour Helicopters has joined the Voxelis Customer Early Adoption Programme for the Voxelis VoxVision system. VoxVision is an AI-enabled vision and data collection platform that will evolve and...
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The Coulson Firefighting Blackhawk can use either S-70i or UH-60 airframes as the base platform. Photo: Coulson Ahead of today’s opening of Aerial Fire Fighting North America in Sacramento, California,...
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Precision Helicopters will begin monitoring its fleet of Airbus AS332 Super Puma helicopters with GPMS International’s Foresight MX in Q2 2024, making Precision the first AS332 operator to utilise advanced...
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Japan’s Nara and Miyazaki Prefectures have signed purchase agreements for two SUBARU Bell 412EPX helicopters with Subaru Corporation. Scheduled for delivery in 2025, the aircraft will be configured for firefighting,...
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Queensland-based Helitak Firefighting Equipment, which has partnered with Rotak Helicopter Services of Anchorage, Alaska, has been granted a Supplementary Type Certificate (STC) by the FAA. The STC allows the fitting...
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Lockheed Martin’s PZL Mielec has delivered the first four European-manufactured S-70M Black Hawk utility helicopters to Romania’s Ministry of Internal Affairs, with a further two more expected before the end...
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Coulson Aviation has secured a year-round firefighting contract extension valued at US$16 million, which will see the company continue to provide support to Southern California’s Quick Reaction Force (QRF) in...
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v2track has added the Trotter DataVault to its list of devices that have approval for use in Aerial Firefighting contracts with the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service (USFS). The...
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The use of night vision goggle technology has ushered in a quiet revolution in aerial firefighting in Australia and the US, with conditions during the hours of darkness often found...
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