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What are ‘Super Scoopers,’ the planes used to fight the L.A. wildfires?
Fire crews are days into a challenging battle against a firestorm in Los Angeles, and one of the critical tools in the fight has been the effort from above. Enter the CL-415 Super Scooper — one ...
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I'm a pilot flying a DC-10 fire bomber to battle the LA fires. This is what I've seen — and this is what needs to stop.
We had a drone come sailing past our left wing on Saturday; the Super Scooper air tanker from Montreal got a hole punched into its wing because a drone ran into it. The drones have to stop because ...
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Watch: Man agrees to plead guilty in drone collision with Super Scooper over Palisades Fire
A Culver City man has agreed to plead guilty in connection with an unauthorized drone's collision with a Super Scooper firefighting aircraft that was flying over the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles ...
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High winds do more than spread fires — they keep firefighting aircraft on the ground
and Very Large Air Tankers (VLATs), which are typically passenger jets converted to tankers with external water tanks. Super Scooper planes load their tanks by skimming the surface of open bodies ...
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Canadian ‘Super Scooper’ plane grounded after hitting civilian drone over Los Angeles wildfires
(CNN) — Los Angeles authorities have vowed to prosecute illegal drone flights after a civilian drone collided with a Canadian “Super Scooper ... can ground air tankers, slow fire response ...
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LA County man admits to flying drone over Palisades Fire that crashed into firefighting plane
(AP Photo/Ethan Swope) LOS ANGELES (CN) — A Los Angeles County man admitted he illegally flew a drone over the Palisades Fire that crashed into and damaged a Super Scooper firefighting aircraft. Peter ...