I was so entertained by this, I thought it would be worth sharing for WUWT readers. Imagine flying a drone with an HD camera through a fireworks display. Guaranteed to leave a smile on your face for the sheer novelty of the viewpoint, watching the near misses, and even a couple of hits…
Videographer Jos Stiglingh flies a DJI Phantom 2 drone with a GoPro Hero 3 Silver through the heart of a fireworks show. Highly recommended that you switch to full screen mode and set the video playback for HD.
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wonderful. as is this:
5 July: UK Daily Mail: David Rose: Global warming computer models confounded as Antarctic sea ice hits new record high with 2.1million square miles more than is usual for time of year
Ice is covering 16million sq km, more than 2.1 million more than is usual for time of year
UN computer models on which scientists base projections say Antarctic ice should be in decline, not increasing
Some scientists have suggested the Antarctic ice increase may itself be caused by global warming. But Professor Judith Curry, head of climate science at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, said the arguments were not convincing.
She added: ‘We do not have a quantitative, predictive understanding of the rise in Antarctic sea ice extent.’ She said it was becoming increasingly apparent that long-term cycles in ocean temperatures were responsible for a significant proportion of the ice decline in the Arctic – a process that may be starting to reverse…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2681829/Global-warming-latest-Amount-Antarctic-sea-ice-hits-new-record-high.html
why are remote controlled aircraft now called ‘drones?’
pat says:
July 5, 2014 at 4:24 pm
I wonder if Dr. Curry got the idea that ocean currents explain Arctic sea ice fluctuations from the many comments to that effect on this blog over the years of its existence.
Watching her evolution from consensus to skepticism has been encouraging. I hope more of her colleagues make the same migration as counter-CACA evidence continues accumulating.
awesome.
Marcos says:
July 5, 2014 at 4:29 pm
They’re drones if they’re autonomous, under computer program control, or controlled not by radio signals at short range, but via satellite links from over the horizon, indeed from another continent.
Also if they’re not meant to model full size a/c, but to accomplish specific missions. Phantom for instance is a remarkably stable platform, suitable for photography in ways that a standard RC a/c couldn’t be.
I am reading
fireworks – drones – military – so i’m not o/t –
.pdf: (100 pages) UK Govt: Ministry of Defense: Strategic Trends Programme – Global Strategic Trends – Out to 2045
Climate change is the principal driver of change in the Arctic and Antarctic, with increasing temperatures and precipitation.
As Arctic and Antarctic sea ice retreats, many areas that are currently inaccessible could become open to commercial exploitation,
particularly of oil and gas…
In the 2045 timeframe, coal and hydrocarbons are likely to remain the most important sources of energy, with renewable and nuclear energy likely
to make an increasing contribution… https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/324188/8667_GST_textpages_v1_2w.pdf
how Lean spun it:
4 July: UK Telegraph: Geoffrey Lean: Food experts warn it could be farewell to the land of plenty
Britain’s production of its own food has dropped nearly 20 per cent in the past two decades. How can we stem the decline?
Two days ago, a Ministry of Defence study of “global strategic trends” raised the spectre of global demand outstripping supply over the next 30 years…
Eating less red meat, also good for health, would also help…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/agriculture/food/10946215/Food-experts-warn-it-could-be-farewell-to-the-land-of-plenty.html
how India read it:
2 July: Hindustan Times: Prasun Sonwalkar: India a global military power by 2045: UK study
A global scenario projected by Britain’s ministry of defence says that by 2045 India is likely to have the ability to project conventional military power globally with the third largest defence expenditure pegged at 654 billion US dollars.
Titled ‘Global Strategic Trends – Out to 2045’, the publication by the ministry’s Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre sets out what the world might look like 30 years from now…
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/india-a-global-military-power-by-2045-says-uk-study/article1-1235945.aspx
@ur momisugly Marcos — it is from urban slang, and adopted by the military. A “drone” is an uncritical, unthinking, follower of an ideology or fad or the like. Drones are also the bees controlled by the Queen who do no thinking of their own (so far as we know). Controlled by others. That’s a drone.
Example: Just look at those drone AGWer’s, mindlessly marching down the street in their recycled paper clothing, screaming, “Stop carbon, now.” Pitiful.
Well William Tell isn’t any more appropriate than an Italian soprano ; excuse me, that’s tenor. Too much reminding of the Green Hornet, or the Lone Ranger.
Maybe Handel’s Royal Fireworks Music, or Tchaikovsky ‘s This Year 1812.
Please; NO Valkyries.
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On “drones” … These just about fit the name.
They use GPS and some fairly sophisticated 3D position sensing to maintain position and altitude. You can program them to go to a specific set of GPS coordinates, and if they lose signal,they will automatically return to the place they were launched from and land.
we should set off some fireworks for Bish!
6 July UK Daily Mail: It’s politics, not science, driving climate mania: Why are environmentalists and scientists so reluctant to discuss long-term increases in southern hemisphere sea ice?
by Andrew Mountford, Climate Change Author
UN computer predictions subject of ridicule: not got it right for 18 years
Across the globe, there are about 1m sq km more sea ice than 35 years ago
Authorities are now guessing global temperatures based on nearby weather stations
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2681812/Its-politics-not-science-driving-climate-change-mania-UN-predictions-subject-ridicule-stunning-failure.html
OOOOHHH! AAAHHHHH!
TY for the video WUWT!
Happy Independence Day!
I assume the videographer got permission or was under contract to produce it.
The density of objects in a fireworks display is pretty low, and the risk of collision pretty much proportional to the size of the aircraft. I’d certainly put it in the realm of accept risk, especially if under contract to the fireworks company and there was a clause that they’d cover damages.
Janice Moore says:
July 5, 2014 at 4:00 pm
> FYI: Music “Con te Partiro” sung by Andrea Bocelli
Sort of an odd choice, to be sure, I would have picked Mars from The Planets, but perhaps they figured everyone would so they went in a different direction.
Have you been a away? I haven’t seen much from you lately. If so, welcome back, if not, I’ve been busy and missing a number of things lately.
I wonder how many Phantoms are going to be sold thanks to that video. One thing that impressed me was how stable the video was. Pity I don’t have a spare $1,369 kicking around.
so beautiful
That was quite a lovely point of view.
Thank you.
I wonder if some of the surviving RAF Bomber Command crews who flew nighttime missions have seen this video and given a comparison to the real thing as it happened to them long ago.
Cheers.
Happy 4th Anthony Watts! Thanks!
Happy 4th Janice!
John Phillip Sousa’s
“The Stars and Stripes Forever”
Boston Pops Orchestra with John Williams
Why are these “fireworks” allowed? Surely the climate is more important and dumping more CO2 into the atmosphere is very naughty!! sarc
Excellent display! Ethereal!
SIGINT EX says:
July 5, 2014 at 5:01 pm
The detonations of 88mm rounds aren’t nearly as colorful. Fireworks don’t produce jagged shards of steel moving at high speed.
Yay! Sparklies! Loved it!
Time to when the authorities decide to search out this videographer and find a reason to declare this a hazard to something or other and fine him/her… in 3…2…1…
“ Marcos says:
July 5, 2014 at 4:29 pm
why are remote controlled aircraft now called ‘drones?’”
…And why are cuttings (of plants) now called “clones”?
In the “Brave New World” it’s just a sign of the times.
SIGINT EX says:
July 5, 2014 at 5:01 pm
PS: American daylight bombers were if anything even more vulnerable to flak:
Pretty cool stuff!
The backwards thing was interesting. Could do a study from that video, no?
Think about it…… is there any de-classified aerial footage of similar stuff anywhere else?
Not off topic either.
“And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air”
Just sayin! -)