It became obvious that mounting a video camera on an airplane with gas or glow motor was not going to be very easy. I came to the conclusion that the less contact the video camera had with the vibrating airplane, the better the video would be. I began looking at a lightweight rod sticking out from the back of the plane to mount the video camera on. One rod would not work, it took three to keep the camera from swaying on the end of the single rod. Luckily I discovered the small key cams. The carbon fiber rods were visible in the video and it was not easy attaching the rods to the plane. I finally came to the conclusion that I wanted a towed camera using fish line or similar. I found a Stryker replacement body at a swap meet and based my towed video vehicle on that. I added elevons, vertical stabs without rudders, a reciever, battery and a servo operated tow line release mechanism. I mounted the key cam on the stryker and set the CG the same as a powered stryker. We finally had a decent way to not only get video of the place we were flying, but also we got great video of out aircraft from behind too. Heres the first event we took the video platform to. The sun was way too low to get good video quality, but we proved the concept.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AfxvijRYUg