foreverNight

This is my first atttempt at arial video.. Quality is crap. I'm using a Vivitar 3746 vivicam rubberbanded atop of of the wing.
its about a 1 minute 1/2 long. I'm getting a Aiptek IS DV minicam soon. the vivitar camera weighs about 5-6 oz.

http://www.rcpics.net/media/AVI_0054.avi

Wastegate

Quality looks Ok to me. How well does it fly with the added weight?

foreverNight

It flew ok but had to fly with full throotle to get up high. And i had to go into a steep dive to do a loop. But, it flew ok better than i expected.

Wastegate

I'm looking to do something similar on my Challenger but I'm having problems finding a decent lightweight USB camera. There are a few pen cameras on EBAY but they can only do short durations and I don't want to go down the wireless route!

p0stal

Vid looked ok to me also. How about posting a pic of the camera mounted on the bird.........

thanks

foreverNight

This is the only camera i have so i had to use a mirror to post a pic of it mounted on my ABX.

p0stal

Thanks

That was some good thinking using mirror.

I'm going to try a similar setup now. .

Wastegate

On seeing your picture, I think I'll try my cheap digi camera and see if it will take off first!

p0stal

Ok I rigged my ABX the same way as foreverNight shows in his pic. Wow. My plane was so heavy I couldn't believe I kept it airborne. Total flight time was 5:35, had to stay WOT or the Bird would drop like a rock. Man It was a tad windy as well but that seemed to help me gain altitude and keep this thing flying.
Enjoy the vid.
I'll put up the entire 34MB Divx version on my site for downloads if anyone wants the full 5:35 min PM me.

I uploaded first 2 min of vid here [link=http://home.comcast.net/~p0stal/first_fly.wmv]Video Here[/link]

Also took a screener of myself in action

foreverNight

What camera did you use? I just got a Aiptek IS-DV. I'm going to try it soon.

p0stal

I used a kodak CX7530 with a 512mb sd card. gives me 23 min of video. But it's to heavy. I'm goin out today in search of much smaller cam.
camera weighs 6.7oz without batteries

[link=http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-locale=en_US&pq-path=2237]Camera Info Here[/link]