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Kent Renewable Energy Partnership BWSC Drone Progress Reports

Sky Filming visits the biomass power station site in Kent to collect progress data with drones for analysis by Danish construction company. In 2016 The fund Copenhagen Infrastructure II and Burnmeister and Wain Scandinavian Contractor A/S (BWSC) began work on a biomass fueled power and heat production site near Sandwich in Kent, not far from […]

Still shot from BBC documentary drone filming

BBC History Documentary 1066 Drone Filming

This was a nice job for us because some of the drone filming for this project took place in York, where we are based. Last year the BBC Documentary department were creating a 3 part drama-documentary series about England in 1066, a pivotal year in English history, called “1066: A Year to Conquer England”, with […]

Vinci Construction Progress Photography

Sky Filming visits many construction sites each month to gather photographs and video clips for progress reports. The types of construction sites we visit vary greatly, from factories to mining, but we are heavily involved in using our drones for monitoring the progress of modern power station builds. Waste Fueled Power Plants Waste-to-energy plants are […]

Templeborough Biomass Power Plant Construction Progress

Sky Filming visits power plant construction sites every month to collect photographic, video and point cloud data. Templeborough in an area in Rotherham, near Sheffield, where various companies are involved in constructing a biomass power plant that will supply green energy to tens of thousands of homes in the local area. Our involvement with the […]

Ebsford Environmental Drone Aerial Surveys

Ebsford are an environmental company based in Yorkshire that specialises in aquatic restoration, that is restoring the natural flow of rivers, streams, waterways and lakes. We have worked with Ebsford on various projects, but the first was a number of years ago when they were removing silt from the lake of Fountains Abbey in North […]

Howsham Mill Video Production

Howsham Mill is a beautiful building, water mill and renewable energy project situated between York and Malton on the banks of the River Derwent. It is open to the public and allows parties of school children to visit and learn about the mill, electricity generation from water power, as well as the various flora and […]

Treves factory from corner showing end of lake, drone aerial photograph

Treves Drone Aerial Photography for Large Lobby Print

Treves UK Ltd have a factory in a beautiful location by a lake between Ripon and Knaresborough in North Yorkshire. They had an aerial photograph taken of their site a few years ago from a tradition manned aircraft, i.e. old school style. The old plane aerial photograph was not very clear, which is often the […]

Yorkshire Water Full Video Production

As well as proving drone video clips and photography, Sky Filming also produces fully edited videos. We were contacted by a representative of Yorkshire Water who was in charge of their media and publicity. He wanted to discuss the possibilities of using a drone and creating and fully edited video about their water treatment plant […]

Drone filming in the rain at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Yorkshire Sculpture Park Event Drone Filming

We’ve always wanted to film at the YSP, and the opportunity arose in February 2016 when they asked us to come and use our drones to film an event, some VIP visitors coming to see an open air exhibition of large sculptures by American artist KAWS. The sculptures are very large, some up to10 metres […]

Sky News Drone Footage of Flooding

Sky Filming has captured video footage and photography for numerous news services and news wire companies, both for features and live news as it happens. One particular news item that stands out, both because it was in our home town and because it spanned a whole week, was our coverage of the York flood disaster […]