The Drone Show Celebrating Vegas Golden Knights 2023 Stanley Cup Championship: I love drone shows and pilots!
About this audiobook
On Saturday, June 17th, 2023; The Vegas Golden Knights celebrated with their adoring fans at Toshiba Plaza just east of T-Mobile Arena. Unbeknownst to us, a drone show had been planned, paid for, and was already in the works for us revelers below. The drone show contractor was the amazing folks and UAS/UAV pilots from Sky Elements USA!
Personally, I was expecting a ton of crazy fireworks. However, I spotted just over the Toshiba Plaza Parking Structure the drones en route to their airborne stage.
I started flying drones in 2015. I have been a tenured drone (UAS UAV) pilot for 8.5 years. I consider myself a seasoned veteran when it comes to dynamic drone aerial videography.
I had seen drone shows that were spectacular at the Disney World theme parks and Universal Orlando. They used to have large screens placed around the park and viewing areas. They projected video on sheets of fountain water and the leaves of the nearby trees, which looks rather slick.
Then I saw an animated Disney one with the infamous animated characters “goofing around” in the night sky. I was driving the I-4 corridor coming back from Clearwater Beach, FL; and I saw another one that looked like Universal Orlando’s as I drove past the attractions. It was very cool, but the Disney drone show was slightly better. This was five years ago approximately when I attended or viewed these shows in Florida. None were as sensational as 6/17/23.
You can actually see individual tree leaves and dark/unlit drones in the sky in this Ultra High Definition video captured. If you are patient when loading your video, The 4K UHD playback experience will be well worth it on a compatible screen.
I also included a short biography of my experience piloting drones since 2015. My tenth drone is a DJI drone. My favorite drone to fly and perform aerial video capture with, in 4K UHD mind you, was my Yuneec Typhoon Q450. The drone I piloted a dozen times over South Beach, Middle Beach, and North Beach in Miami Beach, FL was my Yuneec Typhoon Q450.
I hope that this becomes a loved 4K UHD video that can be considered a time capsule hockey fan gem.
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About the author
I started flying drones in 2015. I have been a tenured drone (UAS UAV) pilot for 8.5 years. I consider myself a seasoned veteran when it comes to dynamic drone aerial videography.
I have seen drone shows that were spectacular at the Disney World theme parks and Universal Orlando. They used to have large screens placed around the park and viewing areas. They projected video on sheets of fountain water and the leaves of the nearby trees, which looks rather slick.
Then I saw an animated Disney one with the infamous animated characters “goofing around” in the night sky. I was driving the I-4 corridor coming back from Clearwater Beach, FL; and I saw another one that looked like Universal Orlando’s as I drove past the attractions. It was very cool, but the Disney drone show was slightly better. This was five years ago approximately when I attended or viewed these shows in Florida. None were as sensational as the celebration event at The Fortress arena in Nevada!
After piloting my first drone, a Solo 3DR “Table-top”. Then I moved up to the prehistoric insect drone Yuneec Typhoon Q450 which had a great 4K camera and dexterous and smooth gimbal for steady shot collection. I am on my 10th drone and about every 1.5 years a new generation of upgrades occurs in drone manufacturing. My DJI Spark 1080P HD drone is great for windy desert environments like the Vegas Valley as its body looks like a World War 1 bulky tank, lol. But, with all the weight pretty much at its center of gravity etc. It can withstand medium-strength desert winds much better than the spread-out thin DJI Mavic family of drones. The Solo 3DR was a bulky tabletop drone whose propellers would sometimes bend into your video capture field. It crashed a lot. I lost it off Sugarloaf Key KOA near Key West, FL where it splashed down a bit distant from the marina area, oh well. I will delve further into my love and passion for drones and flying them in the appendix of this eBook, audiobook, and podcast.
