Super Tanker to Fight Fire

Supertanker, Alan Hanstein /Special to the Tallahassee DemocratTallahassee Regional Airport played host to a demonstration of a new fire fighting tool.

The converted 747 dropped its payload of 20,500 gallons of water at an altitude of 500 feet, flying at 180 MPH.

The super tanker can fly faster, higher and farther than current planes in use and drop seven times more water.


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