{"id":77250,"date":"2018-03-29T16:23:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T23:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/flying-a-tiny-drone-to-a-staggering-33000-feet-gives-you-the-ultimate-birds-eye-view"},"modified":"2018-03-29T16:23:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T23:23:01","slug":"flying-a-tiny-drone-to-a-staggering-33000-feet-gives-you-the-ultimate-birds-eye-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/flying-a-tiny-drone-to-a-staggering-33000-feet-gives-you-the-ultimate-birds-eye-view","title":{"rendered":"Flying a Tiny Drone to a Staggering 33,000 Feet Gives You the Ultimate Bird\u2019s-Eye View"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To ensure the safety of larger aircraft carrying pilots and passengers, unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, can\u2019t be flown higher than 400 feet so they don\u2019t enter national airspace. Regulations in Russia, however, aren\u2019t as strict, enabling drone pilot Denis Koryakin to fly his homebuilt, 2.3-pound craft to a staggering height of almost 33,000 feet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For comparison, a 747 has a maximum ceiling of just over 45,000 feet, but most airliners will cruise at around the same altitude this tiny drone managed to reach. As amazing as the view is from 33,000 feet, it\u2019s certainly a dangerous stunt and will get you in heaps of trouble in the US if you get caught. But Koryakin\u2019s flight took place near the city of Strejevo\u00ef, in Siberia, which is notoriously frigid and sparsely populated. Russia also doesn\u2019t appear to have any regulations on how high a drone can be flown, but hopefully stunts like this don\u2019t become too commonplace.<\/p>\n

[YouTube<\/a> via DPReview<\/a>].<\/p>\n

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To ensure the safety of larger aircraft carrying pilots and passengers, unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, can\u2019t be flown higher than 400 feet so they don\u2019t enter national airspace. Regulations in Russia, however, aren\u2019t as strict, enabling drone pilot Denis Koryakin to fly his homebuilt, 2.3-pound craft to a staggering height of almost 33,000 feet. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}