{"id":318,"date":"2013-08-27T12:01:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T12:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/?p=318"},"modified":"2018-02-28T15:32:07","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T15:32:07","slug":"august-23rd-2013-daily-planet-danger-drone-bombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/august-23rd-2013-daily-planet-danger-drone-bombs\/","title":{"rendered":"AUG 23rd, 2013 \u2013 DAILY PLANET DANGER DRONE BOMBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Danger Boy has done a few TV segments on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discovery.ca\/showpage.aspx?sid=13287\">Discovery Channel\u2019s Daily Planet<\/a> before and we always have a lot of fun with them.\u00a0 It is one of the few shows left on Discovery that still has more science than BS and we appreciate that.\u00a0 Last week they asked us for some assistance as they were doing a segment on police surveillance drones (AKA <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quadcopter\">quadcopters<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle\">UAVs<\/a> etc) and they wanted Danger Boy to \u201cspice it up\u201d a bit with some real world explosions.\u00a0 This sounded super exciting\u00a0 as we love big blow ups and, drones are something that we have been getting into recently with the purchase of our shop <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dji.com\/product\/phantom\/\">DJI Phantom quadcopter<\/a>.\u00a0 Right away we loved the Phantom quadcopter but we realize that it is just a consumer model.\u00a0 We were really looking forward to seeing what the real high end surveillance drones could do.<\/p>\n<p>Our team gathered on an secret site near Burlington Ontario where the police are allowed to blow stuff up whenever they like.\u00a0 We then staged a couple of pretty large scale gas bombs directly behind the Daily Planet host <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ziya_Tong\">Ziya Tong<\/a>.\u00a0 In her opening sequence the police drone hovered overhead capturing the shot as Ziya read her intro.\u00a0 On cue we set off a 40\u2019 diameter gas bomb went off behind her and everyone loved it.\u00a0 Ziya then interviewed our old friend Andy Olesen of the Peel Region police and they talked drones.\u00a0 It will be a fun segment.<\/p>\n<p>After the shoot was over we still had one \u201chit\u201d left.\u00a0 Now you can\u2019t really disassemble a gas bomb and take it home.\u00a0 Not safely at anyway&#8230;\u00a0 We decided to blow this one off with our own drone (AKA Danger Drone) hovering very close above with a <a href=\"http:\/\/gopro.com\/\">GoPro<\/a> in tow.\u00a0 Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/7ovSR2e4lnk\">crazy video<\/a> we got of the gas bomb exploding right from Danger Drone&#8217;s POV.\u00a0 It was literally covered in gas at the end of that shot but all is well though and Danger Drone will certainly live to fly another day.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who helped put this dangerous outing together:\u00a0 The Peel Police and the Daily Planet.<\/p>\n<div id=\"kad-wp-gallery53\" class=\"kad-wp-gallery kad-light-wp-gallery clearfix kt-gallery-column-3 rowtight\"><div class=\"tcol-lg-4 tcol-md-4 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_1841.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_1841-400x400.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_1841-400x400.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.danger-boy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_1841-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tcol-lg-4 tcol-md-4 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a 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