Bill Johns wrote: > > Idle curiosity: > > Has anyone been mounting a video cassette recorder in a sailplane and > taking movies from a sailplane. I have Paul Naton's Endless Lift II with > those marvelous shots along California cliffs. > > What type of planes are you using. What type of camera? Problems? Great > successes? Horror stories? Things to consider?
Somewhere there is a movie taken with a Sanyo digital camera in movie mode. It was strapped to the top of one wing of an electric Stork, and a bunch of Lithium batteries were taped to the other wing for power and balance. The video is breathtaking ... right up to the crash. The camera and batteries obviously caused a weight, drag, and balance problem. It was obvious that it was hard to recover from a nose down attitude, and the video ends with failure to do so ... probably the motor cells didn't have enough power at this point like they did earlier in the flight. Oh, there was also a downlink allowing the pilot to see via a head mounted screen. He could trigger the camera to take a still shot whenever he wanted. I'll try to see if the video is still around the net. -- Andrew E. Mileski Ottawa, Canada RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
