An FPV drone pilot flew a GoPro directly into a tornado to capture decidedly spellbinding footage of an atmospheric twister churning up the Oklahoma landscape. [Read More]
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A Chinese national has been sentenced to jail for flying a drone over and taking photos of a U.S. Space Force base.
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The co-founder of an influential video game company has pled guilty to flying his drone into a firefighting aircraft operating above the Los Angeles wildfires last month. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2025-02-03 16:10
An FPV drone pilot captured cinematic footage of an enormous avalanche in British Columbia on Vancouver Island.
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Aerial cinematographer Doug Thron uses a commercial drone equipped with both an infrared and a normal camera to detect and save trapped animals from disaster zones -- including most recently in Ukraine. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-06-30 22:33
Amateur drone pilot Matt Woods was sitting on his balcony in Bondi Beach, Australia and decided to send out his Mavic 2 Zoom to perhaps capture an ocean vista, but instead found a spearfisherman grappling with what appeared to be an aggressive mako shark. petapixel.com »
2021-07-22 22:20
Filmmaker and drone pilot Jay Christiansen of Minnesota-based Rally Studios became a near-overnight viral sensation when he published a video of a bowling alley that took the idea of a scripted single shot to another level. petapixel.com »
2021-05-05 22:44
A drone pilot has sparked outrage and condemnation by posting a video showing his camera drone “dive bombing” a passenger jet landing at a US airport. The drone came dangerously close to the aircraft during the stunt, which can be seen in the clip above. petapixel.com »
2018-02-05 19:40
I hold a private pilot certificate, as well as a remote pilot certificate; I am also a photographer. I just wanted to share with you some advice from a budding pilot who comes from the much larger world of flying that is general aviation. petapixel.com »
2016-11-07 22:43
A storm chaser captured adrenaline-inducing video of a tornado raging in Nebraska and compressed it into one awesome timelapse. [Read More]
A researcher discovered a ferocious tornado that no one knew about after he spotted a "huge scar" on Google Maps.
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In a shocking dashcam video, footage shows a tornado's path of destruction.
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Storm chaser Brian Emfinger was shooting aerial footage of a tornado near Yazoo City, Mississippi when it moved towards him and his drone. While the footage is incredible, Emfinger says the storm “nearly got” him, and his drone was lost.
Storm-chasing photographer and filmmaker Martin Lisius wanted to demonstrate the danger of flying debris in a tornado, so he got scientists to fire a camera out of a tornado projectile test cannon at 264mph.