California county offers $75,000 in rewards to catch drone operators who interfered with firefighters

[anon34697667]

@anon29631895

These tankers are already flying at the edge of their flight envelope – it likely wouldn’t take much to send them over.

fire fighting plane loses wings

[shaddack]

That’s not as much about the flight envelope as a poor maintenance that does not look for fatigue cracks.

[RyeNCode]

At least the front didn’t fall off. https://youtu.be/WcU4t6zRAKg
(pardon my tasteless diversion to humour)

[shaddack]

With airplanes, it is usually the empennage that falls off (or sheds parts), not the front.