475 foot Smoke Stack Implosion

Geoelectro · Apr 13, 2015

Houston Chronicle "Pasadena residents may have heard several blasts Sunday at 10 a.m. as a planned implosion at the AES Deepwater plant along the Houston Ship Channel took down a 475-foot industrial chimney and decommissioned power production building."

This was shot with an Inspire 1 that belongs to the City of Pasadena, TX and used by my friend Eric.

Geo

CaptainBadge · Apr 13, 2015

I could be wrong and quite often am but I don't think that was shot with an Inspire.

Geoelectro · Apr 13, 2015

Well it was so, why do you say that?

Geo

Mazz · Apr 13, 2015

lol. Nice vid. How does one get to use the towns quad? Where do I sign up?

CaptainBadge · Apr 13, 2015

Geoelectro said:
Well it was so, why do you say that?

it has barrel distortion otherwise known as Fisheye and it has audio. Looks like go pro footage but like I said I have been known..

Geoelectro · Apr 13, 2015

Well the audio was likely dubbed on, I suspect from the TV video that was available. There were 3 or 4 TV stations there filming from the ground. Eric had been talking with the demo authorities for weeks to be able to get aerial footage. This happened yesterday (Sunday) morning and the event was dependent on the weather which has been rainy. I saw the news footage Sunday and in one of the shots I saw the Inspire flying right next to the stack. I knew he must have gotten to fly. I called him today and he sent this footage. He works in the Video Department.

If it were a Go Pro you would have heard props etc. I don't own an Inspire but instead a P2V. I can't comment on the quality of the video from experience. I do know it was the Inspire because Eric said it was and I saw it as I said in another video. They actually own a P2, P2V+, Inspire 1 and S1000. They mostly fly the Inspire 1 out of that bunch.

Geo

gruvpix · Apr 13, 2015

That's awesome

Daniel Mascheck · Apr 13, 2015

Wish I was there with mine. I live in Wharton about an hour plus away! Impressive.

Geoelectro · Apr 13, 2015

I play keyboards in a Church band so my question is...why do they always blow things up on Sunday mornings!?!

Geo

GizaDog · Apr 13, 2015

I would have shot that with 2 Inspires!

CaptainBadge · Apr 13, 2015

Geoelectro said:
Well the audio was likely dubbed on, I suspect from the TV video that was available. There were 3 or 4 TV stations there filming from the ground. Eric had been talking with the demo authorities for weeks to be able to get aerial footage. This happened yesterday (Sunday) morning and the event was dependent on the weather which has been rainy. I saw the news footage Sunday and in one of the shots I saw the Inspire flying right next to the stack. I knew he must have gotten to fly. I called him today and he sent this footage. He works in the Video Department.

If it were a Go Pro you would have heard props etc. I don't own an Inspire but instead a P2V. I can't comment on the quality of the video from experience. I do know it was the Inspire because Eric said it was and I saw it as I said in another video. They actually own a P2, P2V+, Inspire 1 and S1000. They mostly fly the Inspire 1 out of that bunch.

Geo

I stand corrected and own it as usual.

Great video and thanks for sharing!