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Air Force Col. Roger Williams Jr., an instructor pilot with the 156th Airlift Squadron, North Carolina Air National Guard, skirts above the treetops at about 150 feet in a C-130 Hercules aircraft as he locks in on a U.S. Forest Service lead plane during wildland fire suppression training mission in Pisgah National Forest, N.C., May 9, 2012. The aircraft Williams flew was equipped with the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System II, a tanking system that can hold up to 3,000 gallons of retardant or water used to create firebreaks during aerial wildfire suppression. MAFFS pilots follow lead planes as a guide to aid them with where to lay these firebreaks for maximum effectiveness
110512-A-YG824-034.JPG Photo By: Sgt. Darron Salzer

Pisgah National Forest, NC - Air Force Col. Roger Williams Jr., an instructor pilot with the 156th Airlift Squadron, North Carolina Air National Guard, skirts above the treetops at about 150 feet in a C-130 Hercules aircraft as he locks in on a U.S. Forest Service lead plane during wildland fire suppression training mission in Pisgah National Forest, N.C., May 9, 2012. The aircraft Williams flew was equipped with the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System II, a tanking system that can hold up to 3,000 gallons of retardant or water used to create firebreaks during aerial wildfire suppression. MAFFS pilots follow lead planes as a guide to aid them with where to lay these firebreaks for maximum effectiveness


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