drone flights over Detroit that day.

9:30 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:45 am.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Detroit police drones flew 25 times on Saturday 6 April 2024, the first at 9:30 am and the last at 11:45 am EDT, by Detroit Fire Department's published record.

25 drawable flights of 25. 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

25 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	9 min	`3a1dcd75`
9:30 am	Training and testing	30 min	`bf173376`
9:32 am	Training and testing	19 min	`f966ef8c`
9:35 am	Training and testing	33 min	`84093bd4`
9:40 am	Training and testing	3 min	`41cf5802`
9:44 am	Training and testing	15 min	`c39bec3f`
9:59 am	Training and testing	3 min	`f32246e2`
10:03 am	Training and testing	12 min	`9e304e8d`
10:09 am	Training and testing	12 min	`52a14c61`
10:10 am	Training and testing	3 min	`16afb69e`
10:10 am	Training and testing	7 min	`ea24db00`
10:14 am	Training and testing	2 min	`64167638`
10:15 am	Training and testing	32 min	`3d2c3a87`
10:21 am	Training and testing	23 min	`e3e31b3a`
10:22 am	Training and testing	10 min	`fc9bc419`
10:28 am	Training and testing	2 min	`47d1ab76`
10:31 am	Training and testing	14 min	`b9bcbb40`
10:47 am	Training and testing	32 min	`52e47501`
10:57 am	Training and testing	5 min	`31e6338c`
11:00 am	Training and testing	40 s	`2d67d2c1`
11:01 am	Training and testing	19 min	`8a4b9c9d`
11:04 am	Training and testing	15 min	`a4598fb5`
11:24 am	Training and testing	10 min	`d87a2929`
11:25 am	Training and testing	17 min	`1702e3f1`
11:45 am	Training and testing	3 min	`a89b9596`

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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