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.

http://www.bowersflybaby.com/slip.mpg

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.

The camera is the Aiptek DV3100...it's about three inches square and an
inch wide, and stores ~35 minutes of 320x240 video on a 256 MB compact
flash card. I cut away the pin that automatically turns it off when the
LCD display is closed, and just start the camera before climbing into the
aircraft.

My intent is to build mounts for other parts of the plane, and
eventually edit clips together for a CD-movie.

Ron Wanttaja