[Rockhounds] Drone is Swallowed by a Volcano

[J Bryan Kramer]

Looked like a stunt to me, all the attention was worth the cost of the
drone.

BK

““There exists a law…inborn of our hearts…by natural intuition. … If our
lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any
and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.””
Cicero

J Bryan Krämer       North Florida, USA
photos at: http://pbase.com/photoburner


On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 7:43 PM Kreigh Tomaszewski <kreigh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Photographer and filmmaker Joey Helms ventured to Iceland in order to
> capture footage of the volcanic eruption there. During a pass over the
> mouth of the volcano, his DJI FPV was swallowed by lava and lost forever.
>
> As noted by Helms, first-person view drones — or FPV for short — are very
> much prone to crashes. Part of DJI’s pitch
> <
> https://petapixel.com/2021/03/02/dji-launches-the-fpv-drone-shoot-4k-60-fps-video-at-87mph/
> >
> for
> its aptly-named FPV drone was that it was not only durable but would be
> supported with easily replaceable parts to address any crashes that would
> assuredly happen to even the most seasoned pilot as evidenced during
> *PetaPixel’s* own review of the DJI FPV drone
> <
> https://petapixel.com/2021/03/04/dji-fpv-review-a-racing-drone-for-the-non-racing-pilot/
> >.
> When a drone can fly at up to 87 miles per hour while also taking tight
> turns and performing aerial stunts, crashes are pretty much unavoidable.
>
> “FPV drones are notorious for crashing, it is part of the hobby,” Helms
> says. “So in an effort to get a unique vantage point and perspective into
> the crater, we flew this remarkably capable drone as close to the lava
> river and caldera as possible. One of them turned out to be its very last
> flight. At least the goggles record a great 1080p image allowing us to
> actually capture the last seconds the drone saw.”
>
>
> https://petapixel.com/2021/06/01/watch-in-first-person-as-a-dji-drone-is-swallowed-by-a-volcano/
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