5
drone flights over Detroit that day.
6:00 am
first takeoff; the last was at 7:33 am.
7 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
Detroit police drones flew 5 times on Tuesday 13 August 2024, the first at 6:00 am and the last at 7:33 am EDT, by Detroit Fire Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, EDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6:00 am | Training and testing | 7 min | d1978824 |
| 6:09 am | Training and testing | 18 min | 7091d261 |
| 6:28 am | Training and testing | 5 min | bfb6200e |
| 6:38 am | Training and testing | 27 min | b18ad911 |
| 7:33 am | Training and testing | 3 min | 9090c098 |
How this page is made
- Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
- 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 committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
- Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
- A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.
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