What was once merely an idea, a fictional story, or a fantastic cartoon is now becoming a reality: flying vehicles. In San Luis Potosí, a video has begun circulating showing a man piloting a drone.
It was around the 1960s when the cartoon The Jetsons premiered in the United States. It told the story of a family from the year 2062 who lived suspended in the air and traveled in flying cars.
More than 60 years after that television series first appeared, several flying vehicle projects have now begun to emerge, and San Luis Potosí has not been left behind.
The First Manned Drone Piloted by a Resident of San Luis Potosí
A video of a man from San Luis Potosí flying in a drone has gone viral on social media, standing out as the first person from San Luis Potosí to pilot this type of vehicle.
According to internet users who shared the information firsthand, it was a test session in which the resident of San Luis Potosí managed to lift the aircraft off the ground twice: the first time reaching a height of five meters, and the second time reaching 10 meters in the air.
Although no further details were provided regarding the objective of the exercise or the circumstances that led to it, social media users only mentioned that the event took place last Friday, August 21, at the Los Gómez Sports Complex, and that the prototype is a vehicle based on Mexican and Chinese technology.
Who Was the Resident of San Luis Potosí Who First Flew a Manned Drone?
What many internet users, and especially people from San Luis Potosí, have considered a major achievement or historic event was carried out by Hugo González.
The pilot is a resident of the state capital who works in the media and is known on social media as “the Cumbia Viking.” He works as a presenter and radio announcer at La Mejor 90.9.
Toward Optimizing Different Activities Through the Use of Manned Drones
Although this test activity in San Luis Potosí was the first demonstration of something that, only a few years ago, was considered a dream, various companies and student projects across the country have been working on prototypes intended to be useful for revolutionizing activities that could be performed more effectively from the air.
Although drones themselves—small flying objects equipped with cameras and operated through remote controls—have already become highly useful for activities such as photography, security, urban planning studies, and other applications, thanks to their ability to provide better panoramic views of different areas, larger-scale devices that can be piloted by people offer new opportunities.
Among the practical applications that Mexican engineers are seeking through the use of manned drones are rescue operations and exploration in difficult-to-access areas or archaeological sites.
Manned Drones in Mexico
In 2023, as part of the Americas’ Mobility of the Future 2023 forum, the company Airmobility presented the “autonomous flying self-driving drone” to Nuevo León Governor Samuel García, who reportedly became one of the first political figures to pilot one of these emerging technological concepts.
On the other hand, in 2024, a group of young students from Veracruz presented the “Manta Ray Project,” which likewise consists of a manned drone designed for rescue operations, with dimensions intended to allow the transportation of people.
Source: sanluis.eluniversal
