Personally I think everbody's missing the point here, the guy's never flown before !!!!!!!!!!

Go get a trainer, learn to fly for a few months before you put your expensive camera onto any plane and about the same time you're a competant pilot you'll have enough experience to know what'll do the job you want it to.

Correct me if I'm wrong but the way it reads at the moment we're going to have a complete newbie that's never flown taking off the fat end of $1500 worth of 12 ft wingspan plane weighing 23 lbs with an expensive camera strapped to it flying at 50mph very precisely to be able to follow the bikers and "get the best shot" whilst watching a screen on the ground to see where the camera's facing and adjust acoordingly - don't know about you but I wouldn't fancy being one of the guys riding the bikes underneath !!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry but some of the experienced people on here actually recommending planes for this situation I just can't believe the irresponsibilty of it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you really do want to do this project, put an article on here looking for a very experienced pilot to fly it for you and maybe let them have the plane when it's done as payment.