Gadi Schwartz and Kenny Holmes were just finishing their shift when they heard the station helicopter following a high speed taxi and they decided to put the possibilities of Periscope to the test.
Live streaming didn't blow up like it seemed it would in 2015, when Meerkat rekindled the market, Twitter dove in with Periscope and Facebook began testing Live.
Through the night pass over the Pacific, he tested the capsule's on-board periscope, though he found it difficult to use and quickly covered it up as soon as the sun rose.
Periscope Producer has been in testing for six weeks with launch partners like ABC's Dancing with the Stars, CBS 12, Estadao, Fusion, Louis Vuitton, The News & Documentary Emmy Awards, Walt Disney Studios, XBox UK, and TechCrunch's Disrupt conference.
The result is a limited test that includes apps from BuzzFeed, Wish, Periscope and Viki.
"I personally haven't seen people having sex on Periscope but a lot of time people are testing to see if we allow porn and filming pornography on their computer screens.
After letting just celebrities and journalists on its Periscope competitor for a few months, Facebook today began testing its Live streaming video broadcasting feature with average users on iOS in the U.S. What's different from Periscope is that only close friends will receive notifications about broadcasts, and afterwards, replay videos are automatically saved and remain permanently visible.
Twitter cleverly gave Periscope to a number of tech-savvy celebrities to test and while their audiences were necessarily small during the pilot stage, I can see them rapidly learning how to engage directly with fans, just as they have with other social media platforms.
Twitter is also testing it on its own properties: we also then found it on Vine's and Periscope's profile pages.
Body scans are far less invasive and messy than poking a periscope into your innards, and they are more comprehensive than getting a stress test or having one organ checked at a time with, say, X rays or ultrasound.
