In-Flight Video

On Tue, 11 May 2004 12:35:39 -0400, wrote:

Bought a digital video camera a week ago; fabricated a mount and installed
it on the Fly Baby's axle tube this weekend. Here's a quick snippet from a
30-minute flight I took yesterday.

Where were you Ron? Couldn't have been in the pacific northwest, I
see blue sky. BIG GRIN

Hey, now, waiddaminute.... :-)

I admit, it's probably going to be tough to get matching footage when I get
the mounts in place for the other locations on the airplane. At $100 a
camera, I should just install three on the plane at once....

Unfortunately, the video compression loses a lot of data to get the file
down to a size that I could upload to my web page, so it's a bit blurry and
unfortunately short.

At first I thought you managed to somehow scan the camera to the
right. I also thought that you were impressively high on final. But
I finally realised that you went into a slip to loose altitude. I can
see that you really lose a LOT of altitude in a hurry when you slip
the Flybaby.

Yup, you just throw a brick out of the cockpit and fly formation with it.

My original cut at the video started with the turn from base to final, and
ran until I turned off the runway. That way, it was VERY obvious a slip
was involved, and you could see the tail drop when the plane slowed down on
rollout.

But of course, that cut turned out to be about 25 MB in size....tough to
load on the 'ol web page, when all you've got is a 56K dial-up.

Ron Wanttaja