Drone close-up look
Added 2025-08-10 03:16:19 +0000 UTCOne of our drones up close. The 5000mAh battery slides in the hole and is secured by elastic straps. The guidance technology is clever. An external GPS antenna unit is used to give a fixed high accuracy reference point on the ground, and is combined with normal GPS data to give extraordinary accuracy.
The blue heatshrink on the legs has been added to give better grip on the hard cobbles of the medieval castle.
When laid out in the launch grid you can put any drone anywhere in the grid and it recognises its location and uses it to determine its position in the whole drone show. And drone can be any pixel in the show.
These drones have the onboard facility to fire up to six pyroelectric effects while in flight. In our show they are just acting as lights.
They have multiple recovery modes for different fault scenarios. If a drone encounters an issue it can return to base and an auxiliary drone can be assigned to launch and replace it it in the show.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_10q2AUSwPc
Comments
Only one drone passes above the performers during the show, and it is specifically a safer and more enclosed one. The rest are operating in a geofenced exclusion zone. They have to comply with CAA regulations.
Big Clive
2025-08-10 19:17:44 +0000 UTCThose batts must be very heavy. No wonder there are so many recovery modes. Is a licenced 'pilot' (or several) needed for legal reasons despite all the automation? Do they actually get flown directly over the audience, performers, and staff?
Ymir the Frost Giant
2025-08-10 16:57:17 +0000 UTCThanks Big Clive, I too have never seen a show in person, and have never seen a drone. Very interesting
Henry Becker
2025-08-10 11:45:28 +0000 UTC
