Airtanker firefighting is the most spectacular tool used to fight wildland fires. However, it
employs a rudimentary large-scale spraying technology operating at a high speed and a …

The recent huge technological development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can
provide breakthrough means of fighting wildland fires. We propose an innovative forest …

Near nozzle field behavior of round liquid jets injected through large injector diameter
(ranging from 0.2 to 0.6 m) into subsonic uniform gaseous crossflows is numerically …

Although firefighting aircrafts are effective for fighting forest fires, they are affected by a
variety of risks related to forest fires during flight operations such as thermal radiation …

Background Airtankers are able to drop volumes of liquid (suppressant or fire retardant)
varying from less than 1m3 to several tens of cubic metres directly on a fire or with the …

The negative impact of climate change is increasingly evident in the severity of forest fires.
Fires are becoming more intense and can often only be controlled by aerial means. Aerial …

Large airtanker use is widespread in wildfire suppression in the United States. The current
approach to nationally dispatching the fleet of federal contract airtankers relies on filling …

This paper investigates the operational patterns and techniques of aerial fire fighting. It is
demonstrated that manoeuvrability and endurance are the main characteristics when …

A comparison scheme is proposed to extinguish non-uniform fire scenes and continuously
uniform fire scenes using a helicopter's bucket fire-extinguishing device to spray …

Helicopters are more and more widely used for water dum** in fire extinguishing
operations nowadays. Increasing attention is being paid to improving helicopter firefighting …