Drones Providing a Bird’s Eye View of the Pregame Excitement
It won’t just be the Air Force’s finest toys flying over State Farm Stadium as part of the Super Bowl pregame festivities. Fox will also be employing a team of drone pilots to capture unique aerial footage of the hoopla outside the stadium. The team will use a combination of larger drones carrying high-quality stabilized broadcast cameras that will provide cinematic overhead fly-bys, as well as smaller FPV drones that can squeeze into tighter spaces, including the stadium itself.
Drones will also be used by the city of Glendale, where Super Bowl LVII is being hosted, as a safety tool, monitoring the crowds around the stadium for any threats or other signs of trouble. However, all the drones will be eventually grounded as the game gets close to kickoff, as for security reasons, there are temporary flight restrictions put in place around the stadium that not even Fox, the game’s broadcaster, can get around.
