Originally shared by Roswell Flight Test Crew At long last, we round out our trilogy of public safety demonstration videos built around two days of training exercises with the Eugene Fire Department, arranged by our friends at Rising Tide Innovations. We saved the best (or at least the hottest) for last: a burning building. Here it is! Now, technically, the building itself isn't burning, because it's a training facility made of reinforced concrete covered in heat-resistant tiles like the belly of the space shuttle – but you could have fooled us, based on the amount of smoke pouring out and the number of firefighters moving inside to extinguish the blaze. There was a lot happening in this scenario, and it was over very quickly. We only had time to put RQCX-3 “Raven” up twice before it was all over. However, during those precious few minutes, we were able to show what the drone could do. First, with her FLIR thermal imaging camera, Raven was able to see through the smoke – which