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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Captain RK Smithley, a pilot flying McDonnell Douglas DC-10 widebody airliners converted into tanker planes for a New Mexico-based company ...
The company has a fleet of four converted DC-10 aircraft, known as very large air tankers, or VLATs. The wildfire season in the U.S. normally runs from April to about November, when 10 Tanker and ...