AIR DRONE SHOWS
3D ANIMATED STORY TELLING IN THE SKY USING DRONES
Air Drone Shows
Drone Light Shows are performed by a fleet of 100-500 specially equipped aerial drones with multi-colour LEDs. These drones are illuminated, synchronised and choreographed to fly in very tight aerial formation. Almost any image, company logo, slogan, or animation can be recreated in the sky.
Drone Light Shows have illuminated the night sky and dazzled audiences across the globe, including at the recent Biden Harris election celebration and at the 2019 NFL Superbowl. They are at the intersection of art, science and technology – enabling a new innovative format to tell your story in the air. Schedule a consultation with one of our animation consultants to discuss your project.
Benefits of Air Drone Shows
- Digitise and animate your logo, message or product
- Utilise stock animations for entertainment
- Can be seen from any angle
- 100% Automated from takeoff to touchdown
- Shows range from 100 to 1,000 drones and up to 8 minutes in length
- Safer and more environmentally friendly than fireworks
- Choreography with existing fireworks, entertainment or music
- Drones can be equipped with payloads for controlled releases of confetti or parachute drop of small giveaways or beverages
- Available in U.S., Europe and Middle East
Our Ground Control flight crew monitors the flight path, animation, battery strength, GPS location, temperature and altitude. Anomalies are instantly alerted to us so flight crew can determine necessary corrective action needed. Similar to commercial aircraft, our commercial drones carry multiple radios operating simultaneously on different frequencies providing multiple backups and redundancy.
Aerial Drone Light Shows are flown by FAA certified drone pilots who are experts in relevant aviation subject matter, including regulations, aerodynamics, weather and safety. Prior to every Drone show, pre-flight checklists are used to make sure everything is in order: drones are fully operational, flight plans and animations are programmed, navigation is synchronised and tested, batteries are charged, and the flight area is clear. The mission of the aerial drone light show is autonomously flown then returns to its base and lands.
Air Drone Shows Safety
Commercial drones are engineered and built for the sole mission of safely executing drone air shows. While consumer drones are built for the hobbiest, they are not built to withstand the demands required when flying multiple drones within the same space. The following highlights some of the safety features with Air Drone Shows:
Air Drone Shows Safety
Commercial drones are engineered and built for the sole mission of safely executing drone air shows. While consumer drones are built for the hobbiest, they are not built to withstand the demands required when flying multiple drones within the same space. The following highlights some of the safety features with Air Drone Shows:
- Multiple layers of safety
- Flight paths are preprogrammed not to fly over any attendee areas
- Take off from up to 1 mile away
- A Virtual GEO Fence provides added safety precautions. If any drone approaches this virtual fence in the air, the drone is redirected back to the original landing zone. If a sudden gust of wind or defect causes a drone to fly through a secondary GEO virtual fence, the drone is instructed to land immediately.
- Launch in winds up to 30 mph and light rain
- Safer and more environmentally friendly than fireworks
- Spatial Awareness Technology – Each drone knows its proximity to the drones around it. Similar technology used in Tesla’s Autopilot.
- Automated health monitoring. In the event a problem develops with an individual drone, its light automatically turns off, the drone flies back to base and lands. The animation is automatically adjusted to compensate for the missing drone so the visual animation will display correctly.
- Multiple frequency radio communications. Command and control has multiple back-up channels to communicate with each drone.
- Aerial demo of complete show 1 day prior to actual event ( At venue, or remotely if venue not available )
- FAA commercial drone pilot certified for SWARM flights.
We’ve worked with many of the largest brands in the world
Drone Light Shows
Creating an airborne performance animation from a storyboard takes a lot of vision, creativity, ingenuity and brilliant engineering. DE can design a custom animation ranging between 100 and 500 drones. The finished animation can also be choreographed to music. Our software lets us select text, graphics and special effects and place them in a timeline, similar to those found in video editing software. 3D animations are calculated and individual flight paths of each drone are calculated to guarantee they don’t collide in the air. Each drone has autonomous situational awareness which calculates the space between each drone, and instantly makes adjustments for gusts of winds or in the event a single drone is not performing and needs to be removed. Each drone maintains a unique digital ID, and its overall health is constantly monitored from our Ground Control Station over an encrypted network for maximum safety.
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