July 24 was another flying day. Sunny and hot and with a bit of a cross-wind. I shot a lot of video, so I may post other clips from this day, especially on-board views. But here's a segment I put together for the Life in a Day film (by Kevin Macdonald):



It's what I do.
- posted by Bill @ 11:21 AM 0 comments

 
Today I flew at the club on the Air Force base again, and this time I attached a small video camera to my plane. The video is pretty crappy due to vibration issues and conversion to Flash, but it was my first venture into airborne video.



The mounting method was crude, but functional, but it was good because it was simple and allowed me to try it in different locations and orientations, which enabled me to identify where the high and low vibration areas were on the airframe, and to become aware of the vibration problem in the first place. I will no doubt devise a vibration dampener mount for it to alleviate the problem for future flights. Or, I'll just put it on the 4-stroke diesel. :)

I have uploaded three clips to my YouTube channel, as seen below.

Things didn't go so well in the first clip:



But all other flights were without incident. There was no damage, by the way.



I like the third clip the best, because I did a lot of touch and go's, so the engine was not so wound up all the time, giving (marginally) better pictures.



It was hot out there! Three hours was long enough. But the plane came home safely, and now I have a whole gallon of that nasty nitro fuel, so I've got some serious flight time ahead of me. I hope!
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