I understand how the ball's orientation changes when the housing rotates and how you would have to rotate the foam to counteract that to maintain a level frame. But once that is done you could almost get a straight down shot by simply pulling the foam outward near the top like I described in your [link=http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=5939279]camera alignment thread[/link]. That goes for when the ball is in it's normal orientation too. Whatever orientation it's done in, there will be alot of foam protruding from the ball. I agree that alot of those types of adjustments would not be good for those thin wires. I guess my real question is didn't you notice the camera's angle was that far off or was that just a flight demo and not an AP demo?

I've seen that mount for those larger helos. Have you seen [link=http://helicamsolutions.com/html/rockclimbing.html]these[/link] videos of two of them at once shooting AP of a few rock crawling trucks? They shot some nice air to air of each other too. [8D] Just double click in the center of the video player and it will expand to full screen.