Tesla Gigafactory Texas 29 April 2021 Cyber Truck & Model Y Factory Construction Update (08:00AM)

Gigafactory Texas on 29 April 2021! This is where the Cyber Truck and Model Y will be built!
Despite big thunderstorms, tornado warnings in my area, and hail last night and into early morning, things improved enough that I figured I'd get a window of decent weather to fly in, and it worked out! Despite all the rain, the site looked pretty good today ... no huge mud puddles and little standing water, so that was really good to see!

Timestamps:
Drone flight overview with discussion & illustrations: 0:29 to 2:48
Drone flight footage & infographics: 2:55 to 25:15

Here are some of the highlights from today:
- On the west side of the highway, land preparation and hill removal continue at a brisk pace and the foundation that started to emerge in the last video (48 hours ago) has grown quite a bit in size. More of the gravel mix has been spread on the foundation and it is clearly oriented north to south just like the main factory structure. There are also a lot of water main pipes on both sides of the highway and a trench with in some of these pipes has been installed on just on the east side, heading south to the bridge area.
- The southwest footing area shows several more footings almost completed and at the south perimeter grade beam. More work on the west perimeter beam as well. A long line of corrugated storm water pipe is being installed in a huge trench on the west side of the foundation as well.
- The stamping machine roof work on the final materials seems to have resumed on the east side near where the water drains were installed.
- The east steel structure (BIW) has a lot of the metal wall studs installed on the west second floor area and more prefabricated concrete wall panels are being installed on the east side. There appears to be frames for what might be windows on the ground on the east side, as these are approximately the same size and shape of the wall panels.
- Speaking of windows, the first windows arrived on a semi-trailer truck this morning along with other window-related parts.
- In the alley between the paint shop and the battery cell structure, we see a lot of pipes, a large ground ducting with a blower near the large vertical exhaust stack and a new slab. I believe this is all part of the paint shop Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) removal system due to paint solvents and vapors.
- The casting machine footing area appears to have been cleaned up and prepared for probable crane movement and (hopefully) concrete column deliveries soon!
- The battery cell area structure in the NW corner has now passed the 45-degree bend in the foundation and in some places is only 4 sections away from the north perimeter grade beam! All 4 cranes continued to work on lifting steel parts, but the western-most crane is just about out of room to work as the foundation rapidly gets narrower from this point forward.
- Over in the far east area, the battery cathode and lithium hydroxide production area grade and levelling work continues, and the ponds are now gone. What appears to be the start of a foundation shows another north-to-south alignment.
- Just south of the electrical substation/switchyard appears to be a relocation of Harold Green Road a bit farther to the south of the original location and in a location that would eliminate the two sharp 90-degree bends in the road. This is also near to where the gas pipe valve farm was installed.

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Drones used are DJI Mavic Mini and Mavic Air 2.

Drone flight over Giga Texas is with permission of Tesla and CEO Elon Musk

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