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The specifically designed CL-415 firefighting planes are used to scoop up more than 1,500 gallons of ocean water to drop on active fires. ... Two CL-415 planes are sent annually to California from ...
A Canadair CL-415 Super Scooper firefighting plane dropping water on a California fire in 2014. ... "Flying a drone near a wildfire is dangerous and can cost lives," the FAA said in its statement ...
Wildfires continue to rage for a second week across Southern California, killing at least 25 people, destroying more than 12,000 structures and prompting evacuation orders for as many as 200,000 ...
The largest of the blazes, the Palisades Fire, is more than 33 square miles. That’s half the land size of Washington, D.C. A second fire, the Eaton Fire, is now more than 22 square miles.
This is a list of airports in California (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
It is a relocatable, solid-state, all-weather radar with dual-channel, frequency diversity, remote operator controls, and a dual beam tower mounted antenna. The radar provides controllers with range azimuth of aircraft within a 60 nautical mile radius. ASR 8 used a klystron as transmitters power amplifier stage with a load of 79 kV and 40A.
Speed over 3 km course with restricted altitude: Sharp Nemesis piloted by Jon Sharp, 466.83 km/h, November 15, 1998 (aircraft now on display at the National Air and Space Museum) [45] Speed over straight 15/25 km course: Sharp Nemesis piloted by Jon Sharp, 454.77 km/h, October 31, 1998. [45] FAI Class C-1b, Landplanes: takeoff weight 500 to 1000 kg
Editor's Note: This page is a summary of news on the Pacific Palisades fire for Tuesday, Jan. 7. For the latest updates on the California wildfires, please read USA TODAY'S live updates for ...