The saga of several dogs trapped for weeks by lava flows from the La Palma volcano has taken a mysterious new twist, following reports that a mysterious group has managed to whisk them to safety even as a drone airlift rescue was being readied.

As DroneDJ reported Friday, Aerocámaras – a UAV services company from Spain’s mainland – completed a promising test flight on La Palma for a planned rescue operation using drones to haul the stranded dogs out of their molten entrapment. The company’s CEO said that trial used a specially equipped craft to fly a 15.5-kilogram payload a distance of 1.2 km – considerably farther than the 450 meters required to lift the animals out of their lava encirclement – and still had 35% of its battery left for use. A tailor-made system to shoot a net around a simile canine target so it could be transported also functioned as hoped. 

All that was left, Aerocámaras said as the week closed out, was for spiking…

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Source: dronedj.com