China’s GreatHigh drone show sets four different world records

Chinese drone company GreatHigh says it has established four new Guinness Book of Record achievements during a recent aerial show, including the largest number of UAVs flying in the same performance with 5,164 craft working aloft at once.

Shenzhen-based HighGreat Innovation Technology Development revealed the four-in-one accomplishment this week, following an exhibition in late September the company had been preparing since May. That demonstration was conceived to highlight HighGreat’s range of technical abilities in a single drone show format that created 88 different formations – another of its four records set.

The other two marks GreatHigh established were for the longest drone show at 26 minutes and 26 seconds, and the largest light image, which was created by 5,184 craft. Its feat of flying 5,164 UAVs in the same performance simultaneously topped the previous record set last year during an aerial celebration for the arrival of Hyundai’s…