mike wrote:

For the price I can not think of a better camera than a GoPro Hero 3. I
have an older Hero HD and am still happy with it.

What I can add for the GoPro: we had a wing mounted GoPro, and the surface
of the wing was not smooth at the mount point. So during a winch launch it
droped from 400m (1300 ft). We found it laying in the grass near the winch
two days later, completely undamaged. So much for robustness...