drone flights over Detroit that day.

9:30 am

first takeoff; the last was at 10:43 am.

20 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Detroit police drones flew 11 times on Saturday 13 April 2024, the first at 9:30 am and the last at 10:43 am EDT, by Detroit Fire Department's published record.

11 drawable flights of 11. 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

11 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	20 min	`80140c8b`
9:40 am	Training and testing	28 min	`7cab7140`
9:47 am	Training and testing	21 min	`ea8fdfb1`
9:51 am	Training and testing	11 min	`da86f310`
10:00 am	Training and testing	30 min	`c76c80ef`
10:04 am	Training and testing	6 min	`d14c8966`
10:10 am	Training and testing	20 min	`aa708851`
10:11 am	Training and testing	4 min	`902fe224`
10:12 am	Training and testing	25 min	`f92e28ac`
10:20 am	Training and testing	10 min	`1e20a26e`
10:43 am	Training and testing	21 min	`a883410c`

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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