This week on the channel +1.1M views this week

Double rainbows frame The OTUS Project's Canadian tornado flight

An older drone flight approaches ten million views during a week without new uploads.

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The OTUS Project Story of November 12, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Flying a drone RIGHT next to this tornado in Canada

Lou steps out of the vehicle to keep the drone connected. Across the lake, a tornado sweeps over the water beside a double rainbow, close enough for striking footage but beyond the flight the team had hoped to make.

The OTUS Project posted nothing new this week, yet its archive added more than a million views. Much of the present momentum belongs to "Flying a drone RIGHT next to this tornado in Canada," the July Short we covered here in October. It is now approaching ten million views and accounts for more than half the channel's daily viewing.

The flight's practical details are as absorbing as the view. The team checks that the 360 camera is recording, hand-launches the drone through the car window and watches the cone descend. Then the connection becomes the limiting factor. "I am right next to it. I just can't go further," Lou says. The team explains in the description that it never managed to fly inside this tornado.

That distinction matters for a self-funded project built to measure conditions within and around tornadoes, not simply photograph them. Elsewhere in the archive, a timelapse beneath a Colorado supercell and another drone-flying Short are also adding views, though at a much gentler rate.

The channel gained about a thousand subscribers over the week, while daily views are running above their usual level. No fresh launch was needed: the Canadian flight's camera checks, signal worries and extraordinary backdrop are supplying the week's main attraction.

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