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Alenia Aermacchi: an innovative firefighting system approved for the C-27J Spartan airplane

Turin, Italy - It will be a model of the Romanian Air Force the first plane in Europe to use it

One of the Romanian Air Force’s C-27Js will be the first aircraft in Europe to use an innovative firefighting system. In the several past weeks, Alenia Aermacchi conducted intense operating and training tests on the aircraft, which included the new fire fighting system onboard. Alenia Aermacchi recently completed an experimental campaign in a Romanian mountain range with a C-27J that operates w...

fra/pec - 1156946
Rome, Italy, 12/06/2013 12:49
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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