Flying a Tiny Drone to a Staggering 33,000 Feet Gives You the Ultimate Bird’s-Eye View

To ensure the safety of larger aircraft carrying pilots and rider , remote-controlled aerial vehicles , or drones , ca n’t be flown higher than 400 pes so they do n’t enter national airspace . Regulations in Russia , however , are n’t as hard-and-fast , enable drone pilot burner Denis Koryakin to fly his homebuilt , 2.3 - pound sterling craftto a astounding height of almost 33,000 feet .

For comparison , a 747 has a maximal ceiling of just over 45,000 foot , but most airliner will cruise at around the same elevation this bantam drone manage to attain . As awing as the aspect is from 33,000 foot , it ’s certainly a serious stunt and will get you in agglomerate of trouble in the US if you get caught . But Koryakin ’s flight took place near the urban center of Strejevoï , in Siberia , which is notoriously wintry and sparsely populated . Russia also does n’t seem to have any regulations on how high a drone can be flown , but hopefully stunts like this do n’t become too commonplace .

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