rxAxilleas

Hi!
have anyone put a full size dv cam on a 60in plane?
i dont want to use wireless cam due to low quality. i am thinking of a real cam.
the plane is h9 p47 60in and about 9 pounds.
the cam weights about 1.2 pound and the engine is os 90fs .
i am thinking to place it instead the canopy.
i noticed that the engine have much power and with full fuel on the plane it is easy to take off.parhaps if i put less fuel to compensate the more weight of the cam?
any sugestions?
Achilles

MinnFlyer

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I've often though about doing that too. It should work

JimBrown

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You might be pushing the weight limits on a 60" aircraft. Before commiting your camcorder to this, experiment first by adding a 1.2 pound weight were the camcorder will be placed. If the aircraft flies fine with the extra weight, then replace the weight with the camcorder.

One piece of advice. DON'T CRASH! [X(] That might get very expensive.

...jim

rxAxilleas

HI.
i confes that i didnt thought that. nice advice to save my camera.the other think that bothers me is the vibration of the engine and afection to the camera .
thanks again
Achilles

RickeyB

I just bought a cam from Sharper Image for 129.00. This thing has 640x480 VGA resolution up to 30 frames a second, waterproof up to 3 meters, 32 mb internal memory, expandable upto 2GB with an SD card. (1 hour recording time at highest resolution) Uses 2 AA batterirs, comes with several mounts, straps, etc. It saves the file as an AVI format. It can even record sound if you like. The website is http://www2.oregonscientific.com/sho...id=107&pid=709 for all the other info. It weighs about like a D size battery or less...

rxAxilleas

hi, it is very interesting. have you seen a video recorded with this cam?is it worth?
the vibrations on the airframe dont afect the record?
thanks very much