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Fire aviation in Australia, graphically

Bloomberg graphic showing the flight paths of North America based air tankers that travelled to Australia for their 2019-2020 wildfire season.When a reporter for Bloomberg asked me if she could interview me I said OK, as long as I could have the rights to publish the article on my web site — Mira Rojanasakul said yes. I thought the article, written with Hayley Warren, was going to be primarily about air tankers, and those used in Australia in particular, but now that it has been published today I see that it also covers how climate change is affecting wildfires down under and in the United States.In addition to being a writer, Ms. Rojanasakul is an accomplished graphics editor for Bloomberg. And that’s why I’m writing about this article and why you should check it out. She takes graphics to a higher level.Here are some samples. Bloomberg graphic, showing the flight paths of various firefighting and mapping aircraft in Australia.A very impressive large animated version of the graphic below is on the Bloomberg website. Between July 2019 and February 2020, nearly 40,000 flights by firefighting aircraft were taken over southeast Australia.The occurrence of wildfires in Washington, Oregon, and California showing how some of them occurred during the summer bushfire season in Australia. If aviation resources are going to be shared between North America and Australia, this information comes into play. Bloomberg graphic.Bloomberg graphicBloomberg graphic
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Author: Bill Gabbert
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