'Tank Killer's' Conversion Mired in Political Battle

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin › February 20, 2006

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SACRAMENTO - Ed Herlik, a Colorado pilot who's proved he has the right stuff, insists he has the answer to today's gap in military- surplus, propeller-driven planes for conversion to firefighting air tankers.

Some aviation experts agree with him that surplus A-10 jet tank killers are the solution. Some don't.

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'Tank Killer's' Conversion Mired in Political Battle

But much of the debate from Capitol Hill to Sacramento, over transforming so-called Warthogs into Firehogs, has become political. It now centers largely on wheth...

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