February 2011, I got a phone call. "Hi Nehemia, I'm a senior designer at Elbit, and I hear you love to take photos of aircraft. We are going to show our client how he can operate both Hermes 900 and 450 together in a close space. Do you wanna come? I thought you'd love to get some photos there."
Oh, yeah. I've never shot non-military Elbit UAVs before, so—Golan Heights here we come.
We're driving on a winding road.
Yaniv is a very interesting person to spend time with.
Not the best day to shoot some mechanical birds—hot sun, not a cloud in the skies.
First, they take David’s Sling and shoot-up the tiny Skylark.
The UAV’s takeoff is amazingly quiet compared to my beloved F-16s, and they even let me take control.
Then we go out again, a heart-shaped cloud above us and the pair of buzzing unmanned aircraft crossing it.
Hermes is in love, and so am I.
