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Evergreen International Airlines' Boeing 747 Supertanker uses a proprietary pressurized-delivery system to dispense 20,500 gal. of fire retardant or water in about 10 sec. The introduction of large-aircraft "supertankers" is changing decades-long tenets of aerial firefighting, creating the potential...
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