So while searching, go this speck of info,
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On these tanks in the aircraft, the top wording in black states,
US PATENT
7,413,145B2
A method and apparatus for aerial fire suppression utilizing a potable fire retardant chemical dispensing system, readily adaptable, without extensive aircraft modification, to various makes of aircraft, for dispensing current types of forest and range fire fighting chemicals. The aerial...
patents.google.com
This is the EVERGREEN Patent.
To this day, Evergreen Aviation still makes planes like this from cargo planes.
Supertanker - Evergreen Aviation
On their website per that link, they do NOT lie telling you how their tankers are used. I enlarged the text about weather modification.
Markets
- Firefighting
- Oil Spill Containment
- Weather Modification
- Biochemical Decontamination
Their planes can spray just about anything you want them to. The plane below is the type to spray weather modification junk into the air. Yes, it's Barium, Aluminum sulfate, etc.
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