Drones

A 1,600-strong fleet of AO drones lit up the desert sky in Riyadh to celebrate the 22nd World Travel & Tourism Council Global Summit. The production team utilised 1,000 of AO’s supercharged LED drones and 600 pyro drones, which ejected a ‘waterfall’ of glitter-sparks into the night sky. The multi-disciplinary…

AeroAVA has launched a UK-based fleet of high-performance drones to provide displays for outdoor events, broadcast entertainment, public celebrations and marketing campaigns. Each aircraft carries 900-lumen RGB LED making them suitable for depicting 2D and 3D logos, and company messages, that can be viewed from hundreds of metres away. Larger…

The world's largest ongoing drone show – combining ancient indigenous storytelling with laser technology – will launch at Uluru, in central Australia, in May. The immersive show, which is being staged by Voyages Indigenous Tourism Australia, will involve more than 1,000 luminous drones projecting multi-coloured lights and lasers on to…

This year's London New Year's Eve celebrations took place with the support of 400 UAVs from live drone show specialist Celestial. The show drew a crowd of around 100,000 who lined the banks of the river Thames to see the drone display and around 12,000 fireworks. The display included images…

A fleet of 500 drones is lighting up the Dubai skyline twice nightly until 29 January. Dubai Shopping Festival Drone Light Show, which was launched on 15 December, features the drones using 3D animation tools to depict the word 'Dubai' in Arabic. The first of the two five-minute shows, which…

Five-hundred synchronised drones equipped with powerful LEDs performed a choreographed routine over New York City on November 3 to mark the 10th anniversary of the mobile game Candy Crush. The 10-minute display involved the drones creating a series of images, hashtags and slogans from the game, ranging from a huge version…

On 25 September, Skymagic delivered a drone light show in Yumeshima, Osaka for the Expo 2025 Three-Year Countdown Event, attracting around 15,000 spectators from the ground below. Consisting of 800 drones, the display was one of the largest drone light shows Japan has ever seen, and its first to merge…

A 1,000 drone show has been seen at this year's Burning Man, setting a new record for the number of drones at the festival. The show, which was designed by Dutch experiential artworks firm Studio Drift and 10 artists, is also said to have been supported by 400 Starlink terminals…

The UK's largest ever drone show, featuring 600 drones, has taken place to mark the launch of the streaming service Paramount+. The nine-minute show, which brought scenes and characters from Mission: Impossible, Scream and Halo to the sky, was created by Skymagic. Skymagic is the company which provided the drone…

A live concert by American rock band Phish has featured what appear to be drone-controlled dolphin balloons and a drone-controlled whale balloon swimming through the air. The flying sealife were seen at the Madison Square Garden indoor arena in New York, in a concert with creative direction by well-known experience…