drone flights over Detroit that day.

9:41 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:28 am.

5 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Detroit police drones flew 21 times on Sunday 25 February 2024, the first at 9:41 am and the last at 11:28 am EST, by Detroit Fire Department's published record.

21 drawable flights of 21. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.

One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, EST.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Training and testing100%

Flights, in order

21 flights. Those in the latest full month link to their own page; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose has no page of its own.

Takeoff (EST)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
9:41 am	Training and testing	1 min 08 s	`ca50b1f9`
9:42 am	Training and testing	4 min	`eac6a5a9`
9:58 am	Training and testing	16 min	`a78f3406`
10:01 am	Training and testing	1 min 45 s	`99722e68`
10:06 am	Training and testing	8 min	`d6d417f2`
10:09 am	Training and testing	4 min	`ff725846`
10:11 am	Training and testing	3 min	`b80e00a8`
10:15 am	Training and testing	5 min	`a1863ddf`
10:21 am	Training and testing	35 s	`e5eb517f`
10:22 am	Training and testing	23 min	`cf302e4f`
10:37 am	Training and testing	7 min	`66ff21f2`
10:39 am	Training and testing	1 min 33 s	`b2206bf0`
10:43 am	Training and testing	3 s	`8e131800`
10:44 am	Training and testing	7 min	`66ba3a67`
10:45 am	Training and testing	8 min	`474db141`
10:51 am	Training and testing	4 min	`fb757f8e`
10:52 am	Training and testing	4 min	`61c98757`
10:58 am	Training and testing	6 min	`6da05ef6`
10:58 am	Training and testing	25 min	`547a4dac`
11:12 am	Training and testing	9 min	`825ee648`
11:28 am	Training and testing	29 min	`454f4239`

How this page is made

Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, takeoff to landing.
The record's free-text description is never read into a page. A flight whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter is listed like any other but drawn as a generalised area, not a path.
Operators are the agency's own accounts in the record, numbered within the agency in order of first flight; no name or address is read into a page.
Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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