MAFFS, or Modular Aerial Fire Fighting Systems, transforms a military transport into an aerial firefighter. In an interview with Simple Flying, David Sarnoff, the Executive Director for the MAFFS ...

The MAFFS units can be filled with water or a fire ... inside the cargo hold with no structural modification to allow for quick loading on short notice, taking about four hours or less for a ...

The MAFFS that were located with the 145th Airlift Wing of the North Carolina Air National Guard will now move to the 152nd Airlift Wing of the Nevada National Guard. MAFFS are specialized ...

U.S. Air National Guard Maj. John-Mark Koetitz, a pilot with the 115th Airlift Squadron, pilots a California National Guard MAFFS (Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System) equipped C-130J Super ...

Often, these lines are directly adjacent to a wall of flames. Modular Airborne Fire Fighting Systems, known as MAFFS, are a roll-on unit placed on the back of a C-130 cargo aircraft.

More forest fires in the western United States have prompted the U.S. Forest Service to call in two additional C-130s equipped with the Mobile Airborne Fire Fighting System, or MAFFS. Those ...

The Brazilian Air Force (Força Aérea Brasileira: FAB) is using Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules medium transport/multirole aircraft equipped with the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS ...