NASA's Predator B team scrambles for California fires

The eruption of wildfires across Southern California this week sent the NASA-Dryden Research Center's General Atomics Predator B team scrambling to reconfigure the Ikhana unmanned aircraft to join the aerial effort to combat the blazes. Ikhana took to the air Oct. 24 for an 8-10 hour mission and...

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