I'm a third-generation firefighter — and I'm helping to battle the LA fires from the air in a DC-10 fire bomber. Here's how we do it.
The original model of the tri-jet DC-10 featured three GE CF6-6D engines, which propelled it to an operating range of around 6,500 km with 177.92 kN of thrust. The one-size-fits-all approach can ...