Beethoven’s Fifth With a Guinness Chaser

Dean Sigler Electric Powerplants, Sustainable Aviation Leave a Comment

Intel recently earned a Guinness World Record for lofting 100 drones at one time.  To make it hard, they did it at night and to an orchestral accompaniment.  Musical purists (your editor) might become vexed with the liberal reinterpretation of Beethoven’s score (the original symphony didn’t have a piano or a harp), and the added “bits” to a piece that’s been considered OK as-is for over two centuries. The orchestra played what they were given with great style, however, and the electronics wizards who put the aerial show together pulled it off with precision, playing well to the home crowd – apparently composed of Intel employees.  One wishes Intel would release a complete performance video without the music-video-style editing and the reluctance to share the event with the outside world. Even with the “Making Of” video, many points of how it was done are not readily apparent.   It looks as though the human operators do little other than regulate the height …