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A drone hit the wing of a Canadair CL-415 Super Scooper plane fighting the LA fires. Cal Fire only has one other Quebec 1 aircraft in its arsenal.
A Canadian “Super Scooper” aircraft fighting the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles had to be grounded after it hit a drone flying in restricted airspace over the devastating blaze on Thursday, the ...
Peter Akemann, 56, of Culver City, has agreed to plead guilty to one count of unsafe operation of an unmanned aircraft for the Jan. 9 drone collision, which damaged the Canadian "super scooper ...
[17] [18] During 2008, Bombardier and Viking Air reached an arrangement under which the former sold the design documents and all intellectual property rights of all out-of-production de Havilland aircraft from the DHC-1 Chipmunk through the DASH-7 50 passenger STOL regional airliner to Viking. [19] [20] Its unit cost in 2014 was 36.9 million US ...
The pilot of that Super Scooper was unaware they hit the drone and suffered a “a fist-sized hole” in the aircraft, Marrone added Friday. The plane remains grounded, but will hopefully be ready ...
Safety concerns have been raised due to the potential for an ingested drone to rapidly disable an aircraft engine, [1] and several near-misses and verified collisions have involved hobbyist drone operators flying in violation of aviation safety regulations. [1] [2] UAVs have historically had a much higher loss rate than manned military aircraft.
The unauthorized drone damaged the aircraft, known as a "super scooper," as it was working to suppress the massive Palisades Fire that has so far engulfed more than 23,000 acres of land in western ...
The FBI has released photos of a Super Scooper firefighting plane that was damaged when it collided with a drone that someone was flying near the site of the Los Angeles wildfires. According to ...