"Fires are getting bigger and burning more intensely. We are facing climate change and longer droughts," said Chief Ken Pimlott, the man in charge of the State of California's Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) during the recent Aerial Fire Fighting (AFF) Conference at McClellan Airport in Sacramento, California. Global Supertanker's Boeing 747-400 dominated the static display during that event (see AIR International, May 2016, p6-9), dwarfing aircraft around it such as Air Tractor's AT-802F.
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