You can get in touch with Jesus by emailing j.mosquera@newsweek.com Amid the inferno sweeping through Los Angeles, the amphibious CL-415 "Super Scooper" has proven essential in fighting California ...

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 ...

That means they can dispense vast quantities of water on a continuous loop until they run out of fuel. Here’s what to know. The Super Scooper, with a wingspan of 93 feet and a length of 65 feet ...

As part of the plea deal, he will be required to fully repay the Government of Quebec and an aircraft repair company, which spent about $65,000 to get the Super Scooper back in the air.

A "super scooper" that was damaged by a drone last ... lifesaving communications equipment last Thursday. Thanks to prior fuel treatment by the Angeles National Forest and the work of firefighters ...

"fill up tanks in 10 to 12 seconds — 1400 gallons of water — and continuously scoop and drop water on one tank of fuel." It takes a special kind of mindset to pilot a Super Scooper, he said ...

NBC Universal, Inc. One reason last week’s collision between a firefighting plane and a drone caused such a stir was because Los Angeles doesn’t have many spare “Super Scoopers” to take ...

Prosecutors filed a plea agreement in which they said Akemann admitted he crashed the drone into the Super Scooper aircraft on Jan. 9, causing it to be taken out of commission temporarily.

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) – A 56-year-old Culver City man has agreed to plead guilty to “recklessly operating a drone” that ended up crashing into and damaging a Super Scooper as it was fighting ...

That means they can dispense vast quantities of water on a continuous loop until they run out of fuel. • The Super Scooper skims the water’s surface at 100 mph, collecting 1,600 gallons in ...