In 2022, Leonardo unveiled for the first time a new firefighting configuration for its C-27J Spartan Next Generation cargo ...
I'm a third-generation firefighter — and I'm helping to battle the LA fires from the air in a DC-10 fire bomber. Here's how we do it.
While some Angelenos cast around for someone to blame, a whole cooperative emergency-response system whirred to life.
A drone that authorities say was flying in restricted airspace on Jan. 9 put a fist-sized hole in the wing of a Super Scooper ...
Aerial support during the California wildfires has been grounded at times by high winds. Here's what the aircrafts do and why they can't fly in certain conditions.
The special fire fighting planes are retrofitted with large tanks to skim across large bodies of water to scoop it up before dropping it across swaths of fire. The “Quebec 1” was being used with ...
A California man is facing up to one year in federal prison for recklessly operating a drone that crashed into a Super Scooper firefighting aircraft as the crew was battling the devastating Palisades ...
In 2022, Leonardo unveiled for the first time a new firefighting configuration ... to clients is a multi-mission aircraft, able to perform not only fire-fighting missions, but also cargo and ...
A man who was piloting a drone that collided with a firefighting aircraft ... fire officials thought they had put out on Jan. 1 in the same area reignited and spread because of intense winds, or a ...
McNally confirmed that the crew was able to land the Super Scooper safely, but said that the aircraft was out of commission for approximately five days as the Palisades Fire raged on. During the ...
A man who was piloting a drone that collided with a firefighting aircraft ... fire officials thought they had put out on Jan. 1 in the same area reignited and spread because of intense winds, or a ...