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AW: Boeing 747 als Löschbomber zugelassen!
Es gibt ihn noch, aber:
==> What It Feels Like to Fly a Firefighting 747... But don't expect to see the big four-engine tanker dousing flames near you. Not yet, anyway. While the new FAA certification approves Global SuperTankers for performing water drops on state land, there's still one problem; no one has hired them. The U.S. Forest Service is the largest contractor of air tankers in the country, hiring 20 aircraft exclusively for firefighting. They spend roughly $26,000 dollars per aircraft per day to keep them available for battling a fraction of the 50,000 to 60,000 wildfires the USFS responds to each year. The Global SuperTanker is not one of these 20 aircraft. A spokesperson for the service recently told KKTV News in Colorado that contract discussions won't begin until sometime in 2017.