drone flights over Detroit that day.

9:30 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:27 am.

7 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Detroit police drones flew 18 times on Saturday 16 March 2024, the first at 9:30 am and the last at 11:27 am EDT, by Detroit Fire Department's published record.

18 drawable flights of 18. 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, EDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

Training and testing100%

Flights, in order

18 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 (EDT)	Purpose	Airborne	Flight
9:30 am	Training and testing	14 min	`2a38bd9d`
9:30 am	Training and testing	28 min	`2b8d8601`
9:38 am	Training and testing	4 min	`8ad8b728`
9:48 am	Training and testing	21 min	`a55c475f`
9:50 am	Training and testing	11 min	`503d6e7c`
9:53 am	Training and testing	3 min	`3ff0571d`
9:57 am	Training and testing	7 min	`688fa950`
10:02 am	Training and testing	16 min	`4d594aa8`
10:04 am	Training and testing	7 min	`bc345bf4`
10:14 am	Training and testing	6 min	`6a9e53b4`
10:19 am	Training and testing	4 min	`ece0338f`
10:27 am	Training and testing	4 min	`ca7f01de`
10:33 am	Training and testing	43 s	`be3fc4e3`
10:34 am	Training and testing	1 min 48 s	`af12410c`
10:45 am	Training and testing	13 min	`146c0574`
10:52 am	Training and testing	5 min	`cbbed919`
10:59 am	Training and testing	16 min	`ba3a9f6a`
11:27 am	Training and testing	28 min	`8a7467bf`

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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