Read full article: Ask Anthony: Why wasn’t a DC-10 firefighting plane used during the Pauline Road Fire? In the past, we’ve used the DC-10 air tanker to battle major fires, so one viewer asked ...
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 ...