NOUN
- an airplane constructed to transport chemicals that can be dropped in order to fight a forest fire
How To Use tanker plane In A Sentence
- A Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations' Ilyushin-76 tanker plane drops some 42 tons of water onto a burning forest near a suburb of the town of Voronezh on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010.
- Following a big fire, there are always discussions about potential techno fixes, like more supertanker planes, better foams and incombustible construction.