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This Is the Best Apple “Spaceship” Drone Video Yet

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Philip Elmer-DeWitt
Philip Elmer-DeWitt
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt
Philip Elmer-DeWitt
December 5, 2015, 2:04 PM ET
Courtesy of Duncan Sinfield
Courtesy of Duncan Sinfield

The latest drone video of the world’s most closely watched construction site is also the best, with annotated views of Apple’s future headquarters a year before its scheduled completion. Here is the half-finished Pentagon-sized “spaceship,” the parking garages, the underground theater, the R&D building, the pile of excavated dirt the size of a small mountain.

Duncan Sinfield, who posted the clip on YouTube Friday, is the first drone videographer to land his craft on the summit of Mt. Apple. He’s also the first to open his soundtrack with Steve Jobs’ saying “you are already naked”—an excerpt from his Stanford graduation speech.

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