On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:42:49 -0600, Barnyard BOb wrote:


Got a new mini video camera for Christmas, had to build a new mount to fit it on
the Fly Baby:

http://www.bowersflybaby.com/pix/Pipper_burns.wmv

Ron Wanttaja
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Can you tighten up that new mount to where the lens takes pictures of
where you are going rather than swinging around bassakwards to where
you have been, Ron? :-)

Now, now, Bob.... one can ask only so much for the cheap little tripod socket on
a $70 video camera. It only takes ~2 threads of a 1/4-20 bolt before it bottoms
out; I add safety wire and a tad of hunert-mile-an-hour tape just to be on the
safe side. I make one flight with the camera pointing aft, the next with the
camera facing forward, another with the thing on the tail facing forward, etc.

That's how I did this video, with an earlier, lower-resolution camera:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubDOG4E_pXs

Ron Wanttaja