Future Development of Aircraft Rescue

Past, Present and Future Development of Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting Vehicles
By Aaron Schwartz

The problem of fire fighting is one of the most actual problems of our time because despite the great technological progress made by mankind the fire still causes a lot of disasters and catastrophes. Since ancient times the situation has hardly changed for as soon as fire appeared in human’s life it brought not only warm and better opportunities to survive but also it brought a great danger that people very often couldn’t cope with. Logically, the most progressive part of mankind tried to do their best to solve and, certainly, to prevent this problem. As human race evolved the technology evolved too. The most up-to-date machines and technologies have replaced old means of fire protection. And in the future man is supposed to be completely replaced by special machines and devices that will have remote control and won’t need man’s presence. So, it is evident that scientists and researchers tend to make fire fighting less dangerous and more controllable.

But, unfortunately, sometimes enormous territories may be in fire and at first it seems impossible to stop it. Exactly for such cases aircraft fire fighting vehicles are used. Also it is necessary to underline that with the development of airplane and space industry appeared the danger of fire on the board of planes and space vehicles or even stations. So there is a large sphere where aircraft fire protection is needed. This branch of fire fighting doesn’t have a very long history in comparison with others and we can say that it is the most modern and highly technological industry which deals with fire fighting.

Actually, we can estimate that aircraft rescue fire fighting vehicles appeared as soon as airplane industry appeared. Anyway, at least the idea of such vehicles appeared on the dawn of ‘the space era’ because as usual any new thing causes new problems so airplanes made people think about safety of flights and the possible usage of new kind of vehicles for the people’s sake. As for the history of aircraft rescue fire fighting vehicles their necessity became quite obvious at the period of World War II when the problem of air crashes and aircraft fire fighting increased to the great dimension because appeared such problems as the problem of the flights’ safety, as well as the problem of airports’ safety and some other correlating problems.