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The United States is still the world’s aviation leader, but one type of aircraft that it has never made is a purpose-built firefighter aircraft, even though big fires plague many areas of the country. Right now California is once again on fire. As this is written a fast-moving wildfire is surging in Ventura and Los Angeles […]