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French Startups Challenge Aging Canadair Fleet with Next-Generation Aerial Water-Bombers
Aviation News – French aviation startup Positive Aviation, led by former Airbus engineer Jonathan Beck, is developing converted turboprop aircraft to challenge aging Canadair water-bombers in combating European wildfires. The initiative emerges as record-breaking summer heatwaves and severe droughts incinerated nearly 500,000 hectares across Europe this year, driving urgent demand for modernized aerial firefighting fleets. Operating out of the historic Hangar 16 in Toulouse—the birthplace of Concorde—engineers are utilizing a disused…