Weird weather
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GasBandit
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AITA if I can't keep a certain Bad Religion song out of my head these last few days?Can't embed Bluesky, but this video of palm trees burning in high speed winds in front of a McDonald's in California.
figmentPez
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Drone collides with firefighting aircraft over Palisades fire, FAA says
“We hit a drone this afternoon — first one,” said L.A. County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone. “Our Super Scooper hit a small drone.”
He said the incident occurred over the Palisades fire Thursday. He didn’t have details on who was flying the drone, but said the drone was destroyed and the Super Scooper — a massive fixed-wing plane that can drop large amounts of water — was damaged.
“It put a hole in the wing,” he said. “It’s grounded now.”
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One Of Just Two CL-415 Super Scooper Planes Taken Out Of Palisades Fire Fight By Drone
A drone’s collision with a water-dropping aircraft fighting the Palisades fire in Los Angeles caused temporary grounding of all aircraft working that fire and took out one of just two amphibious planes capable of repeatedly scooping 1,600 gallons of water from the ocean and delivering it onto nearby flames, Cal Fire told The War Zone.
“We hit a drone this afternoon — first one,” said L.A. County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone. “Our Super Scooper hit a small drone.”
He said the incident occurred over the Palisades fire Thursday. He didn’t have details on who was flying the drone, but said the drone was destroyed and the Super Scooper — a massive fixed-wing plane that can drop large amounts of water — was damaged.
“It put a hole in the wing,” he said. “It’s grounded now.”
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One Of Just Two CL-415 Super Scooper Planes Taken Out Of Palisades Fire Fight By Drone
A drone’s collision with a water-dropping aircraft fighting the Palisades fire in Los Angeles caused temporary grounding of all aircraft working that fire and took out one of just two amphibious planes capable of repeatedly scooping 1,600 gallons of water from the ocean and delivering it onto nearby flames, Cal Fire told The War Zone.
figmentPez
Staff member
It makes perfect sense, but I was not expecting to see a hole the shape of a flying toaster.
--Patrick