China Breaks World Record with 22,580 Drones in Spectacular Sky Show

The Guinness World Records people have recently announced on their YouTube channel that the record for the most drones simultaneously airborne has been broken again – inevitably by a Chinese company.  On 3 February, the Guangdong EHang Egret Media Technology Co., Ltd (couldn’t they have come up with a shorter name) set aloft 22,580 drones in the city of Hefei (the capital of China’s Anhui province).  If I caught it properly, about 25 failed to set sail into the sky.  It beats the previous rec...