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Old January 12th 15, 10:46 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Steve Leonard[_2_]
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Default What is the L/D penalty of outside mounted GoPros?

Put enough cameras on, Bruno, and the plane may glide backwards because of all the drag! Want serious glide degradation, you needed to talk with Oscar Boesch about carrying an early I-Max camera on his AS-W15. Pictures in a back issue of SOARING. Oscar left us in 2012.