PatrickCurry
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Yeah, he said because of the extremely high speed of the camera, it was not like a "normal" video camera that you could just start and let it run for an extended period of time. I certainly agree though that you could have used one of the simple on/off switches on the receiver to trigger the camera. Or *something* else since as they said, "if the trigger didn't work, the whole experiment would be worthless." I would have to agree with JollyPopper, they certainly do seem to infuse a lot of "drama" to make people want to watch the TV show. Either that, or that was the stupidest group of engineers and research people I've ever seen. Probably the BIGGEST problems I saw was that if you have to "struggle" to keep up with your chase plane, they needed a different chase plane. When they got the 2nd plane and chose the "ferrari of prop planes" or whatever they called it, could they not have found something faster than the Skymaster that they could have REPAIRED at the field and had ready to go? On an experiment of this scale, would you not have had a couple chase planes at the ready that were capable of keeping up? If everyone was concerned about safety, that would have cancelled the experiment right there.
And a 50 yard receiver? Yes, perhaps the narrator mis-spoke or the script was off, but give me a break. Y'all can joke about Spektrum radios if you'd like but..... LOL Maybe that was taking into account the interference from both planes or something. You would have thought they would have used a different sort of antenna or something to make a better link. They didn't go into that a lot so we don't know, other than the guy saying he used a "standard" receiver. The guy with the radio joked telling the pilot to "remind me to make sure the antenna is pointing up".... surely these guys weren't this clueless.
Also.... the guy who climbed down into the hold after the crash commented that "if there was baggage down here, that would have pushed up the floor of the aircraft and given us different results"...... No sh** Sherlock. If they wanted to simulate an actual crash, WOULDN'T YOU HAVE FILLED THE BAGGAGE COMPARTMENT IF FOR NOTHING ELSE THE ADDITIONAL WEIGHT? If that was full of baggage and the floor was pushed up, the fuse would have possibly folded and broken apart in more places and you would have had an ENTIRELY different crash scenario.
Overall, I thought it was pretty spectacular and a good watch. We don't know a lot of what went on behind the scenes except maybe the guy who said he worked with the guy involved in the project. If we knew some more of the details, I wouldn't have to say yes, that was possibly the stupidest group of engineers and research scientists I've ever seen. 
Oh yeah, you would have thought that with the "crash scene inspector" lady involved that she would have know about all the panels and junk falling down from the ceiling of the plane. I would have at *least* removed the panels and anything in the areas that would have interfered with my onboard cameras if that was so vital!
AND..... I was thinking for safety reasons, WHY IN BLAZES would you have crashed it with 2 hours of fuel left in the tanks? But then I realized that if something had gone wrong and they had to abort, the Captain would have to be able to fly back to the airport or do whatever their "fallback" plan was. It was very interesting.
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all of the above. It was obviously drawn out for sponsership purposes and could of been told in in a 1/2 hr show. Are there any threads on here any more that deal with actually building model aircraft?
