Drone News: Mavic 3 Specs, A-Team Rescues Dogs, Mesa Airlines Drone Delivery, New RedEdge Camera

This week in Drone News: More leaks on the Mavic 3, a proposed drone operation to rescue dogs has been canceled due to the dogs disappearing, Mesa Airlines and drone delivery, and a new MicaSense RedEdge Camera

Mavic 3 / Mavic 3 Pro / Mavic 3 Cine

The Mavic 3 specs have been leaked ahead of the assumed Nov. 5th launch.

5.1K 50FPS, 4K 120FPS, 1080 200 FPS+, 20 MP

200MBPS H.264 & 140MBPS H.265

Cine can record Apple ProRes 422 HQ

The secondary camera is 12 MP and can record 4K 30

Mavic 3 Cine has 1 TB internal storage

Standard Mavic 3 has 8 GB

Micro SD up to 2TB are supported

4S 5000mAh LiPo battery, 46 minutes of flight time

OcuSync 3.0

Controller quality video is 1080P @ 30 or 60 FPS

https://dronexl.co/2021/10/26/mavic-3-specs-leaked-launch-dji-drone/

A-Team rescues dogs

Drone operations in Spain had been feeding dogs on a portion of the mountain surrounded by lava flows.

A plan was in place and operators received permission to fly their UAS to the dogs in an attempt to rescue them.

Once the plan was solidified and in place, the dogs disappeared.

The animals were apparently rescued by unknown persons who spray-painted a message “The dogs are fine. - The A-Team”.

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/21/1048003713/a-team-dogs-rescue-volcano-lava-la-palma-spain

Mesa Airlines and drone delivery

Mesa Air group has signed an agreement with Flirtey Eagle drones.

Mesa will be using these aircraft for nearly all delivery types but will start with commercial food and beverage deliveries.

So far, Mesa has purchased 4 sUAS for testing, with the option of 500 more.

With the purchase of these drones, Mesa becomes the first US-scheduled airline to launch a commercial drone delivery service.

https://www.aviationtoday.com/2021/10/21/mesa-air-group-first-scheduled-us-airline-launch-commercial-drone-delivery-service/

New MicaSense Camera

AgEagle, who we reported on last week is releasing a new MicaSense RedEdge-P sensor

This sensor is a multi-spectral and RGB sensor designed for spectral analysis of plants and has a larger spatial resolution than the previous RedEdge.

It is interesting to see this release only a week or so after AgEagle announced the purchase of SenseFly.

We may soon see MicaSense and ebee aircraft together!

https://www.suasnews.com/2021/10/ageagle-unveils-the-micasense-rededge-p-drone-sensor/