AirVūz News: World of Drones 08/17/20

Published 08/17/2020 07:11

We begin at Fenway Park in Boston where another drone has caused a delay during a Major League Baseball game. Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays players first spotted the drone during the 4th inning of their game last Thursday, which eventually ended up causing a 4-minute delay until the drone flew away. This is the second time a drone has caused a delay in an MLB game this year. As you may have seen on last week's world of drones episode, the first instance of this happened just a couple weeks ago during a Twins-Pirates game at Target Field in Minneapolis.

A bald eagle destroys a government drone over Lake Michigan. 

The $950 drone, which was a part of a Michigan state environmental agency abbreviated EGLE, was in the process of surveying an area of the lake near the state’s Upper Peninsula. Then, out of nowhere, it started spinning uncontrollably and eventually got a prop destroyed by the bald eagle leading to it falling out of the sky. “When he looked up, the drone was gone, and an eagle was flying away,” said the department of the drone pilot in a statement after the incident. They go on to speculate that the eagle could have attacked because of a territorial dispute, because it was hungry “or maybe it did not like its name being misspelled.” Julia Ponder, executive director of the Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota, said on Saturday that it was likely because the drone had encroached on the eagle’s territory.

“They’re the king of the skies,” she said.

A drone assists in an arrest of a man suspected of a domestic violence stabbing. 

Last week the Santa Monica Police Department deployed their drone to locate the suspect Adam Martinez. Once spotting the drone flying over him, Martinez willingly surrendered. “When the domestic violence stabbing occurred last weekend, the supervisors working saw the opportunity to deploy the aircraft and do it in a way that is going to help minimize the risk to officers in the community and get that suspect into custody, and it worked out perfectly," said Lt. Russ Mengel with the Santa Maria Police Department. 

Now to an update on the NYCDFF... over the past year and a half we’ve seen some amazing videos uploaded to AirVuz, all eligible for this year's nycdff. 

While the deadline to upload for this years Film Festival has now passed, stay tuned to AirVuz in the coming days, weeks and months leading up to the event as we’ll be announcing judges, nominees, special guests, ticket information and more info on how you can be apart of the Digital Day of Drones.

Speaking of drone videos being acknowledged, here in no particular order, are the top 5 videos uploaded to airvuz last week:

Skynamic Drone Demo Reel by Skynamic Drone

The Great Coast Of Cornwall | Winter 2019 by benhawkinslive

Sarah Phillips Aerial Drone Reel 2020 by teamdirtydrone

Romanian Mountains by Chris Thodd

Tell Me about Light by Alberto Ardit

Over the years, we have seen some phenomenal showreels here at AirVuz, but I think this one from Skynamic Drone will be one that’s talked about for months and years to come. Full of action, nature, cities, ships, cars and more it truly is the perfect cinematic reel. It’s even got a shot of award winning actor Patrick Dempsey!! Congrats again to Skynamic Drone for taking home the $250 Drone Video of the week and now being eligible for the $500 Drone Video of the Month! We can’t wait to see what you have in store next. 

And on the FPV side.... wow, how about those pilots to watch last week!?! The creativity and talent just continue to amaze. Congrats again to all of those pilots who are now eligible for the AUGUST FPV video of the month Which will be selected by Nubbfpv. 

Also make sure to catch our latest AIRVUZ after hours episode as myself and Tyler Mason catch up with Tiny Whoop Creator and Pilot Jesse Perkins!

Well that will just about do it for this week's episode, thanks for tuning in, stay safe, and we’ll see u next week on World of Drones!

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