DRONE VS. VOLCANO II

THE VOLCANO ALWAYS WINS… OR?

Image Courtesy: Skyfire’s Art Department

Recently, some drone footage gained fame for the sheer ridiculousness of it. Every now and then you see something that just stops you in your tracks and makes you wonder, “How did someone do that?”. For us here at Skyfire it’s when we see someone flying drones directly at themselves, but manage to stop just before they get a haircut.

Photographer Garðar Ólafs (Gesundheit) has the opposite of a normal reaction when someone says your house is 15 minutes away from an active volcano. He and his brother own a stock photo company that sells footage to most of the large video companies. This footage will probably be too well known now to end up in an episode of The Walking Dead. Is that show still on the air? Has it been cancelled yet? How long can zombies stay around?

Anyway! Ólafs said he wondered what a shot would look like directly over the top of the volcano (wouldn’t we all?) and started lowering his drone down until he realized that he could no longer see the drone! Panicked, he flew his drone back and landed to see the damage that had been done by 2,200° F. While the drone still flies, the sensors and landing light are toast! He said he gets constant error messages while flying.

So, let this be a lesson. Don’t fly your drones into the mouth of a volcano. Unless you send us the footage…