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Old 01-26-2003 | 04:36 AM
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Tall Paul
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Default self righting aerodynamics

For your purpose, a camera carrier, the FMA Co-pilot will do what you want.
It will keep the wings level, and a constant fuselage angle at a particular power setting.
You do the "heading hold" mode the wing-leveler provides for aerial photos.
Here's a photo I took this morning with a side-looking camera. Note the "same road"..
The plane deviated sufficiently in heading between two photos that the perspective changed enough to make the images not fully "stitchable".
For a vertical image this isn't all that important, but when looking obliquely perspective does matter..
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