paveodie,

I will post my second (crash) video tonight. The good news is I got over the roof line, the bad news is I hit a tree. Nice video though, right up to the tree... Once I got over the roof line I found that there was more wind than I thought.

I get my video stuff from www.blackwidowav.com. I am using a 200mw brown-bag system on my blade. A 50mw system would probably do the trick, I know he has one on the website. My setup kind of expensive for this kind of thing, but I already had it from my fixed wing video experiments. I need to figure out a better way to mount the camera to reduce vibration and protect it better. There are a bunch of inexpensive 2.4Ghz all-in-one systems that would probably work well on the blade, but I don't like the video quality I get with CMOS cameras (most of the cheap setups are CMOS).

That one tree broke my landing gear, my tail boom, my tail rotor and broke one of the balls off my bell-hiller head (from a HoneyBee CP2). I fixed it all but the head last night... I have to wait for a part on that one.

Steve