The business of fighting fires from the air is global. This is dangerous work, and every season, it seems the industry loses aircrews to crashes. Watch this short video to get an idea of how dangerous this activity is. The…
PR: ACASS Canada Ltd. (“ACASS”) and XINATIS Consulting Inc. (“XINATIS”) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on their respective services. ACASS has 30 years of expertise in the business aviation sector, providing aircraft sales, flight crew staffing, aircraft…
As we see priceless works of art at the Getty Center in LA endangered by a fire just across the freeway and thousands of people displaced by wildfires, the need for increased aerial firefighting support is quite clear. The technology…
As summer approaches in North America it means the inevitable coming of wildfires. Some numbers provide a useful guide to what these fires mean. The US National Interagency Fire Center wildfire firefighting statistics and costs for 2016 (2015 for comparison)…
Wayne Coulson is CEO of Coulson Air Tankers. Last week we wrote about how the company is retiring the last two Martin Mars – seventy years after they were made. How many aircraft have worked that long? Mr Coulson reflects…
Coulson Group, owners of the world’s only Martin Mars, are retiring the aircraft. Only five of these giants were built by Glenn L. Martin Company in Baltimore. Coulson’s website has this history of the aircraft: “The Hawaii and Philippine Mars…