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  • [Drone sounds]

  • [Music playing]

  • I've successfully reached the other side of the lake.

  • Oh, oh!

  • Check this out!

  • I see something big!

  • Rumor has it, about 5 miles down this trail is a massive World War II bomber called a

  • B23 Dragon Bomber, and it was wrecked here in the mountains of Idaho about 70 years ago.

  • We're going to be taking this brand new DJI Mavic 2 Pro, the one with the massive 1 inch

  • sensor in front, and see if we can find it...see what's left.

  • Let's get started.

  • [Intro]

  • The Mavic 2 Pro has all of the same sensors that we saw on the Mavic Zoom that I reviewed

  • a couple days ago.

  • So whether you're flying forwards, backwards, left or right, you should be protected while

  • you're flyingmaking the drone harder to wreck.

  • Remember, not impossible...just harder.

  • Especially when you're doing the pre-program maneuvers inside of the drone, like the asteroid

  • or the hyper-lapse.

  • All of the autonomous flying is being protected with those sensors around the sides of the

  • drone.

  • The cool thing about the Mavic 2 Pro is that with that 1 inch sensor, it can display 10

  • bits worth of color, which is more color than most computer monitors can even handle right

  • now.

  • So if you're looking to be on the bleeding edge of technology, the 1 inch sensor with

  • 10 bits of color is the way to go.

  • More colors allow for more detail and just a better looking image.

  • The good news is I've been out here in 'neature' for about 2 hours now with no internet connection,

  • and I haven't had any withdrawals yet, so I should be alright.

  • So the reason I like using drones is because it brings a whole new dynamic to storytelling.

  • Like yeah, I could just film straight ahead and film the whole hike, but that wouldn't

  • be interesting.

  • You can't see anything around me and you can't get any perspective shots of what the area

  • looks like.

  • Plus, a normal hike is something that everybody's seen before.

  • But a drone shot is usually from a perspective that no one has seen beforeadding a whole

  • new level of storytelling to your story.

  • Also, I brought enough water to start a farm, but I left all of my food in my truck.

  • So hopefully it doesn't take us too long to find this plane.

  • So I've been hiking for about 5 miles now, and if the rumors are true, the plane should

  • be on the other side of this massive lake.

  • And this isn't just any airplane, this isn't a small fighter like the one we saw at the

  • bottom of the ocean in Hawaii.

  • This one is a full-fledged bomber, a B23, with the wingspan of about 92 feet.

  • Pretty massive.

  • It's a little more nerve-wracking.

  • 200 pounds of me on very dried out, wiggly logs.

  • I've successfully reached the other side of the lake, but still no sign of the plane.

  • I'm beginning to have doubts.

  • Oh, nope!

  • Check this out!

  • Look at this!

  • I see something big.

  • So why is this massive bomber out here in the middle of nowhere next to a lake?

  • Let me paint a picture for you.

  • [Classical Music playing]

  • It's the middle of winter in January 1943.

  • Eight guys are in this plane running a normal supply mission when they encounter on a massive

  • winter storm, effectively icing up their wings and not allowing them to fly, which is kind

  • of important when you're in an airplane.

  • Their fuel was running low and their radio had cut out, so they were narrowed down to

  • a couple options.

  • One is to jump out of the plane, that's inevitably going to crash, with a parachute.

  • But there were 8 guys and they would have ended up scattered all over the countryside.

  • So I think they made the correct decision in hindsight, to stay in the plane and try

  • to land it as best as possible.

  • Looking out the window of their plane, they saw what they thought was a massive field

  • where they could land their plane safely.

  • Turns out it was a lake.

  • They ended up overshooting the field the first time because the flaps on their wings were

  • iced up, effectively not allowing the plane to stop or slow down.

  • So they banked up hard and turned around and tried it a second time, knowing that the plane

  • wasn't going to slow down enough for them to land safely.

  • They ended up overshooting what they thought was that field and crashed their plane through

  • the treeseffectively ripping off both wings.

  • But, all 8 guys survived.

  • One did break his leg though, so 3 or 4 days after they had crash-landed, 3 of the guys

  • ended up hiking 40 miles to the nearest town.

  • It took them 15 days to go get help.

  • After that, another plane was able to come and pick up the remaining 5 guys who stayed

  • behind with the guy who had broken his leg.

  • [Music playing]

  • One thing that is super interesting is that the Air Force was not super pleased with their

  • high-tech piece of equipment getting crashed.

  • Remember, this was 70 years ago.

  • So the Air Force ended up coming out themselves and taking 1200 pounds of sensitive equipment

  • and the instrument panels out of the wreck so people couldn't steal our technology.

  • Of course this wreck has been here for more than 70 years now, and a lot of humans have

  • come up to visit as well, taking the propellers.

  • Scavenging humans are a problem when it comes to historical artifacts.

  • But I think it's pretty cool.

  • It's not every day that you get to come and see a piece of history where it happened.

  • Everything in this video was filmed using the DJI Mavic 2 with this massive 1 inch camera

  • sensor in the front of the drone.

  • Just like with the Mavic Zoom, this drone does have the safety sensors in the front,

  • the sides right here, and also in the back of the drone, which is pretty cool.

  • And on the bottom we also have some more sensors.

  • The build of the Mavic 2 Pro is basically the same as the Mavic Zoom, except for the

  • gimbal and the camera in the center.

  • So the controller of the Mavic 2 Pro is effectively the same as the Mavic Zoom that we tested

  • a couple days ago.

  • This circle over here on the left side controls the camera gimbal, which can also go up and

  • down and point at the sky, which is kind of cool.

  • And then the circle over here on the other side is actually used for the aperture.

  • Aperture means you can kind of decide what is in focus and how much of the background

  • is blurred when you're taking video of something with the drone.

  • So I would say if you're into the super cinematic shots where the background needs to be blurred,

  • lots of bokeh, there needs to be lots of color, the Mavic 2 Pro is probably the drone for

  • you.

  • Personally, I think I go more for the features of the drone, and having the capability to

  • zoom in on something while not losing any quality is super important, especially for

  • the drone history videos I do like these.

  • So for me, I'm probably going to end up using the DJI Zoom a little more often than I will

  • the Hasselblad 1 inch sensor Pro version of the Mavic 2.

  • If you haven't seen any of my other drone history videos, I will go ahead and link them

  • here for you.

  • And let me know what drone you think is best.

  • Which would you prefer: the Zoom, or the super colorful, 1 inch Hasselblad sensor Pro version

  • of the Mavic 2?

  • Either way, thanks a ton for watching and for coming out here with me to see this beautiful

  • wreck of a plane and the history behind it.

  • And I will see you around.

  • [Music playing]

[Drone sounds]

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