Turkish Drone Pilot Takes His Phantom 2 To 5000 Feet

DJI Phantom 2 Flight Altitude Record 1500 M 4921 Feet Full Video

 

 

 

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Man Arrested Getting This Amazing Drone Footage Of Beijing

Beijing From Above, And The Story Of How I Was Detained By The Police For Flying My DJI Quadcopter

 

 

 

 

 

Published on Jun 19, 2014

” I wrote a full story about this video and getting detailed by the Chinese police! Check http://www.stuckincustoms.com/2014/06… – I also have more about how I made the video, equipment, etc etc.

This music is by the great Jon Hopkins. This song is called “A Drifting Up.” “

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dolphin Stampede Caught On Film By Hand-Launched Personal Drone Off Dana Point

Drone Films Mega-Pod Dolphin Stampede Off California Coast

 

 

 

 

” A drone has filmed a huge dolphin stampede off the coast of California, with thousands of animals forming a mega-pod.

  Captain Dave Anderson from Capt. Dave’s Dolphin and Whale Safari sent the drone to capture the stampede and edited the footage into a five minute YouTube film.

  The film also shows three gray whales migrating down the coast and a newborn humpback whale snuggling alongside its mother in Maui.”

 

Capt Dave offers his own narration of the events :

 

” Captain Dave Anderson of Capt. Dave’s Dolphin and Whale Safari in Dana Point, California, at great personal risk, has recently filmed and edited a 5-minute video that contains some of the most beautiful, jaw-dropping, footage ever taken with a drone from the air of a huge mega-pod of thousands of common dolphins stampeding off Dana Point, California, three gray whales migrating together down the coast off San Clemente, California, and heartwarming close-ups hovering over a newborn Humpback whale calf snuggling and playing with its mom as an escort whale stands guard nearby, filmed recently in Maui.

  According to N.O.A.A. Southern California has the greatest density of dolphins in the world. We have pods up to 10,000 strong stretched out for miles like the wildebeests of Africa. Over 400,000 common dolphin alone. We also have the largest concentration of blue whales on earth.

  Capt. Dave explains, “This is the most beautiful and compelling five minute video I have ever put together. I learned so much about these whales and dolphins from this drone footage that it feels like I have entered a new dimension! I have not been this excited about a new technology since we built our underwater viewing pods on our whale watching boat. Drones are going to change how we view the animal world. Wow!”

  Capt. Dave had to film this off a small inflatable boat, launching and catching the quadcopter drone by hand where a miss could mean injury to him from the four propeller blades or loss of the drone. He actually lost one drone on takeoff when it nicked his small VHF radio antenna on the 14 foot rigid inflatable he was filming from and it went into the water. Alone six miles offshore Capt. Dave , without thinking , dove into the cold, late-January waters off Dana Point to retrieve the valuable footage taken on a flight a half hour earlier that morning. “I had my hat and glasses on, I was fully clothed with long-johns on to keep warm and my cell phone and wallet in my pocket,” Captain Dave explained. “It was a stupid move, but the copter started sinking so fast it was my only hope to get the amazing footage I had just shot”. Since then he has attached flotation to the skids, which would save the footage, but every flight over the water still risks the DJI Phantom 2 quadcopter with a small GoPro HERO3 Black camera on it, as the $1,700 rig is not waterproof and the skids will not keep it upright on the ocean.”

 

 

IBD has more as does Capt Dave

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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