"The private, aerial firefighting industry has submitted a viable plan to replace today's dwindling number of former Cold War Era military aircraft with modern tankers, derived from commercial jets. Although that plan was submitted more than a year ago, it has yet to be acted upon by the US Forest Service (USFS)" Source: Tom Eversole , Executive Director of the American Helicopter Services and Aerial Firefighting Association (AHSAFA).
A thunderstorm anvil which spreads upwind, against the flow aloft. A back-sheared anvil often implies a very strong updraft and a high severe weather potential.
Bonanza Air Services (BAS) was formed in early in 1945 by Edmund Converse, a former lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy; Charlie Keene, once an operator of a small charter operation in Santa Paula, California; and June Simon, daughter of "Pop" Simon the former secretary-director of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce.
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