Sentences with phrase «air tankers»

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Most carbon life cycle analysis, using published computer simulations, show that the emissions given off by trying to contain fire actually exceed those from the fire itself given in order to influence fire behavior fossil fuels are used to drive logging trucks, operate machinery, air tankers, and transport wood products, including biomass to fuels.

Four air tankers and four helicopters were dropping fire retardant on the flames from above, but the fire had remained entirely uncontained, Madsen said.

The U.S. Forest Service announced yesterday that it has contracted for seven new «next generation» air tankers for wildfire suppression, part of the service's ongoing efforts to replace its current, aging fleet.

As hundreds of firefighters and some two dozen air tankers battle Canada's massive wildfires, scientists and other experts say prolonged modern droughts and climate change are creating a new perfect storm of super fires and other extreme weather events.

For the 2016 fire season, the agency has «helitack» crews and 21 air tankers available in the western United States.

An air tanker fights California's Bluecut wildfire with flame retardant.

Julie Bowen lends her impressive vocal talents to Disney's new animated adventure - comedy, «Planes: Fire & Rescue» voicing the character of Dipper, the hopelessly romantic air tanker who's part of the elite aerial firefighting team at Piston Peak.

We were advised five days before travel of an aircraft change.We were told we were flying Air tanker A330.

«Suspended Plane» (1966), which SFMOMA just acquired from Celmins herself, apparently describes a photograph of an air tanker in flight.

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The account identified B - 52s with the call signs HERO01 and HERO02 departing Anderson Air Force Base and heading toward the South China Sea, refueling along the way from US Air Force KC - 135 tanker aircraft.

«Well, I read XYZ plane (might have been Air Force One) got refilled by an aerial tanker - why can't we do that with cars?»

Obama's increases would allow for next - generation F - 35 fighter jets, for ships and submarines and for long - range Air Force tankers.

Air Force Gen. Carlton Everhart, chief of Air Mobility Command, told Air Force Times that once testing is finished and the new tankers start to be delivered, he expects «they're going to clear out pretty quick» to Air Force bases.

Now the Air Force expects to receive the first operational KC - 46 by spring 2018, and Boeing is obligated to deliver 18 of the new tankers by October.

A Boeing spokesman said similar contact between the boom and the receiving aircraft happens with the Air Force's current tankers as well.

Boeing won the contract to develop the new tanker in 2011, and the Air Force expects to buy 179 KC - 46s under the $ 44.5 billion program.

The KC - 46 Pegasus has hit a few bumps as it nears its delivery deadline, but the Air Force still expects the first of the refueling tankers to arrive by late spring.

U.S. Air Force selects Rockwell Collins for expanded avionics support on KC - 135s - Apr 10, 2018 - Rockwell Collins has been awarded multiple repair contracts by the U.S. Air Force to support Global Air Traffic Management (GATM) components on the entire KC - 135 tanker fleet.

Echoing then - Defense Secretary Ashton Carter's remarks last month, Goldfein said most view the January strike in Libya as a B - 2 strike, but forget that its journey and mission were supplemented by Air Force tankers, maintainer airmen and weapons loaders, among other «family of systems.»

Before joining the airline, Holly served as an officer in the Phoenix and Utah Air National Guards, where she flew the KC - 135 air refueling tankAir National Guards, where she flew the KC - 135 air refueling tankair refueling tanker.

«The Air Force made the right decision to bring KC - 135 tankers back to the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station,» said Senator Gillibrand in a prepared statement.

Sens. Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten E. Gillibrand, along with Reps. Brian Higgins and Chris Collins, are urging Air Force brass to designate the Falls base as host for the new KC - 46A Pegasus tankers — a new generation of refueling aircraft.

At 2:30 p.m., Reps. Chris Collins and Brian Higgins host a press conference urging President Barack Obama to relocate the KC - 135 tanker mission to the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station, Niagara Falls International Airport, 2035 Niagara Falls Blvd., Niagara Falls.

The Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station will receive what could be a life - saving boost in President Barack Obama's fiscal 2017 budget, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer said, as the Air Force will announce plans to bring eight refueling tankers to the base to replace its aging fleet of cargo planes.

When the Air Force needs to fly their fuel - hungry fighter jets across oceans and continents without landing, they rely on flying gas stations like the KC - 10 Extender tanker to keep them aloft.

She wonders how much the smoky tankers that pass through the waters outside her window are polluting the air.

But his images do more than hint at pollution and death: The petrochemical industry reveals itself as an omnipresent and brazen specter through the photographs» rusted pipelines, mammoth tankers and tangles of steel, concrete and smokestacks belching noxious fumes and toxins into the air and water.

Commercial shipping (which includes much more than container ships, but also cruise ships, ferries, tankers, etc.) has a dirty little secret: Its effect on air pollution.

1 Executive Summary 2 Scope of the Report 3 The Case for Hydrogen 3.1 The Drive for Clean Energy 3.2 The Uniqueness of Hydrogen 3.3 Hydrogen's Safety Record 4 Hydrogen Fuel Cells 4.1 Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell 4.2 Fuel Cells and Batteries 4.3 Fuel Cell Systems Durability 4.4 Fuel Cell Vehicles 5 Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure 5.1 Hydrogen Station Hardware 5.2 Hydrogen Compression and Storage 5.3 Hydrogen Fueling 5.4 Hydrogen Station Capacity 6 Hydrogen Fueling Station Types 6.1 Retail vs. Non-Retail Stations 6.1.1 Retail Hydrogen Stations 6.1.2 Non-Retail Hydrogen Stations 6.2 Mobile Hydrogen Stations 6.2.1 Honda's Smart Hydrogen Station 6.2.2 Nel Hydrogen's RotoLyzer 6.2.3 Others 7 Hydrogen Fueling Protocols 7.1 SAE J2601 7.2 Related Standards 7.3 Fueling Protocols vs. Vehicle Charging 7.4 SAE J2601 vs. SAE J1772 7.5 Ionic Compression 8 Hydrogen Station Rollout Strategy 8.1 Traditional Approaches 8.2 Current Approach 8.3 Factors Impacting Rollouts 8.4 Production and Distribution Scenarios 8.5 Reliability Issues 9 Sources of Hydrogen 9.1 Fossil Fuels 9.2 Renewable Sources 10 Methods of Hydrogen Production 10.1 Production from Non-Renewable Sources 10.1.1 Steam Reforming of Natural Gas 10.1.2 Coal Gasification 10.2 Production from Renewable Sources 10.2.1 Electrolysis 10.2.2 Biomass Gasification 11 Hydrogen Production Scenarios 11.1 Centralized Hydrogen Production 11.2 On - Site Hydrogen Production 11.2.1 On - site Electrolysis 11.2.2 On - Site Steam Methane Reforming 12 Hydrogen Delivery 12.1 Hydrogen Tube Trailers 12.2 Tanker Trucks 12.3 Pipeline Delivery 12.4 Railcars and Barges 13 Hydrogen Stations Cost Factors 13.1 Capital Expenditures 13.2 Operating Expenditures 14 Hydrogen Station Deployments 14.1 Asia - Pacific 14.1.1 Japan 14.1.2 Korea 14.1.3 China 14.1.4 Rest of Asia - Pacific 14.2 Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) 14.2.1 Germany 14.2.2 The U.K. 14.2.3 Nordic Region 14.2.4 Rest of EMEA 14.3 Americas 14.3.1 U.S. West Coast 14.3.2 U.S. East Coast 14.3.3 Canada 14.3.4 Latin America 15 Selected Vendors 15.1 Air Liquide 15.2 Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. 15.3 Ballard Power Systems 15.4 FirstElement Fuel Inc. 15.5 FuelCell Energy, Inc. 15.6 Hydrogenics Corporation 15.7 The Linde Group 15.8 Nel Hydrogen 15.9 Nuvera Fuel Cells 15.10 Praxair 15.11 Proton OnSite / SunHydro 15.11.1 Proton Onsite 15.11.2 SunHydro 16 Market Forecasts 16.1 Overview 16.2 Global Hydrogen Station Market 16.2.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.2.2 Hydrogen Stations Capacity 16.2.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 16.3 Asia - Pacific Hydrogen Station Market 16.3.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.3.2 Hydrogen Stations Capacity 16.3.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 16.4 Europe, Middle East and Africa 16.4.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.4.2 Hydrogen Station Capacity 16.4.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 16.5 Americas 16.5.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.5.2 Hydrogen Station Capacity 16.5.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 17 Conclusions 17.1 Hydrogen as a Fuel 17.2 Rollout of Fuel Cell Vehicles 17.3 Hydrogen Station Deployments 17.4 Funding Requirements 17.5 Customer Experience 17.6 Other Findings

June 2017: Phillips 66 quietly initiates a permit revision process with local air district authorities to allow a 100 percent increase in oil tanker deliveries to its marine terminal at their SF Bay Rodeo refinery — site of the Sept. 2016 Yamuna Spirit oil spill.

The local air district and Phillips 66 still refuse to provide any information regarding the details of the cause of the Sept. 2016 Yamuna Spirit spill, nor as to the source of oil intended to be delivered with the increased oil tanker traffic to the Phillips 66 SF Bay refinery.

Friends of the Earth has won regional, national and international limits on air, water and oil pollution from cruise ships, cargo ships, oil tankers, ferries and recreational water craft.

The slides detail Exxon's tanker program, which will sample air and the CO2 concentrations and sample the temperature of the ocean along the tanker routes.

Further distance over the pacific, burning unclean bunker fuel in the tankers and wind up be used by a country that doesn't care at all about the pollutants they are putting in the air.

Proceeds will fund the fight against Kinder Morgan's pipeline and tanker protect that risks our land, air, and water.

Unloading and loading tankers with chemicals using air pumps, checking for leaks, changing gaskets on tanks and tankers.

United States Air Force, Ellsworth AFB, SD 2002 — 2005 Non-commissioned Officer - in - Charge — Combat Crew Communications Trained and equipped bomber, tanker and reconnaissance aircrews with communications security training.

Hold Class A CDL license with Tanker, Air Brakes, Triples / Doubles, and Hazmat endorsements.

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