• Behind-the-scenes footage reveals skills, tricks, and techniques used for new “Dronekhana” video, which showed drone racing stars tackling a unique obstacle course

• Talcum powder, dozens of GoPro cameras, and multiple burnouts among secret ingredients that helped bring video to life, with drifting Focus RS and smoking Mustang

COLOGNE, Germany, Aug. 19, 2016 – How do you fly a drone through a car, or freeze two drones in mid-air just like in The Matrix? The answers to these questions can be found in new behind-the-scenes video that spills the secrets of Ford’s new “Dronekhana” video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwBHKn3Bt6o

Showcasing the talents of two of the world’s best drone pilots as they take on a unique obstacle course, including a drifting Focus RS, and a smoking Ford Mustang, the video has been an immediate hit with petrol heads and drone racing fans alike. Now the new footage reveals exactly how it was done.

Did you know

• the drones used are capable of speeds of up to 120 km/h – and can fly for only three minutes at top speed before the batteries need replacing or recharging?
• the balloons were filled with smoke – and generous amounts of talcum power?
• each of the 12 Mustang burnouts lasted 15 seconds using electronic Line Lock system?
• a rig of 36 GoPro cameras was used to capture the drones mid-action in the style made famous by 1999 film The Matrix?
• “Dronekhana” follows the series of Snowkhana videos that are a Ford festive tradition?

Watch World Drone Prix champion Luke Bannister; Tornado XBlades team mate and fellow Brit, Brett Collis; and the crew as they reveal what went into “Dronekhana” – named in tribute to the YouTube phenomenon Gymkhana, starring Focus RS consultant Ken Block, and filmed at Ford’s European HQ in Cologne, Germany, which this week hosts Gamescom Europe’s biggest interactive games trade fair.