Drone News: Mavic 3 Specs, A-Team Rescues Dogs, Mesa Airlines Drone Delivery, New RedEdge Camera
This week in Drone News: More leaks on the Mavic 3, a proposed drone operation to rescue dogs has been canceled due to the dogs disappearing, Mesa Airlines and drone delivery, and a new MicaSense RedEdge Camera
\nMavic 3 / Mavic 3 Pro / Mavic 3 Cine
\nThe Mavic 3 specs have been leaked ahead of the assumed Nov. 5th launch.
\n5.1K 50FPS, 4K 120FPS, 1080 200 FPS+, 20 MP
\n200MBPS H.264 & 140MBPS H.265
\nCine can record Apple ProRes 422 HQ
\nThe secondary camera is 12 MP and can record 4K 30
\nMavic 3 Cine has 1 TB internal storage
\nStandard Mavic 3 has 8 GB
\nMicro SD up to 2TB are supported
\n4S 5000mAh LiPo battery, 46 minutes of flight time
\nOcuSync 3.0
\nController quality video is 1080P @ 30 or 60 FPS
\nhttps://dronexl.co/2021/10/26/mavic-3-specs-leaked-launch-dji-drone/
\nA-Team rescues dogs
\nDrone operations in Spain had been feeding dogs on a portion of the mountain surrounded by lava flows.
\nA plan was in place and operators received permission to fly their UAS to the dogs in an attempt to rescue them.
\nOnce the plan was solidified and in place, the dogs disappeared.
\nThe animals were apparently rescued by unknown persons who spray-painted a message \u201cThe dogs are fine. - The A-Team\u201d.
\nhttps://www.npr.org/2021/10/21/1048003713/a-team-dogs-rescue-volcano-lava-la-palma-spain
\nMesa Airlines and drone delivery
\nMesa Air group has signed an agreement with Flirtey Eagle drones.
\nMesa will be using these aircraft for nearly all delivery types but will start with commercial food and beverage deliveries.
\nSo far, Mesa has purchased 4 sUAS for testing, with the option of 500 more.
\nWith the purchase of these drones, Mesa becomes the first US-scheduled airline to launch a commercial drone delivery service.
\nhttps://www.aviationtoday.com/2021/10/21/mesa-air-group-first-scheduled-us-airline-launch-commercial-drone-delivery-service/
\nNew MicaSense Camera
\nAgEagle, who we reported on last week is releasing a new MicaSense RedEdge-P sensor
\nThis sensor is a multi-spectral and RGB sensor designed for spectral analysis of plants and has a larger spatial resolution than the previous RedEdge.
\nIt is interesting to see this release only a week or so after AgEagle announced the purchase of SenseFly.
\nWe may soon see MicaSense and ebee aircraft together!
\nhttps://www.suasnews.com/2021/10/ageagle-unveils-the-micasense-rededge-p-drone-sensor/