Flying and Video

[dkenney1]

My 18 year old creative/artistic daughter has been experimenting with a GoPro camera and to my surprise/delight she asked me to go flying and if we could place the camera in a few locations. Here are links to a couple of results that she suggested I forward on to you. As a Dad and pilot my excitement is not so much the videos, but her statement, "it's so beautiful up here I had forgotten how much fun this can be, and I love Taylor". From 2 years old to 14 or so she did a lot of flying with us when I was building time and we would rent a Saratoga or something plush to go on trips to visit family. She lost interest and life's priorities and finances curtailed my flying until two years ago buying, as she calls it, "Taylor". In the last two weeks we've flown 4 times to get the $50 hamburger or ice cream cone like when she was a kid.

I'm sure the tribe will have suggestions on how better to get that elusive wheel landing. For some reason this plane (maybe it's the pilot) seems to prefer to three point. I tend to be timid or late on the forward yoke as wheels touch but it's usually in a very tail low attitude that tailwheel is just a couple of inches from toughing anyway.

Enjoy, and I'll put the dart board on my back. :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7JPsi_zdj8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHmUX8T1Bpo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9WX-SPPsS4 Here more artistic version

[Robert Lees]

Re: Flying and Video

Nice videos! But I see Dad is flying sans daughter?

I always have trouble matching music to video (particularly a flying video), and that last one is just perfect. Also, just over a minute is also perfect "attention span". All mine end up being too long.

Where did the camera get attached? Jury strut? (it's a loaded question; I have some suggestions, more questions, and some attachment locations that you won't get past the Feds).

Rob

Postscript: Incidentally, the spats look great on your machine, and I do quite like the "Pitts" colour scheme. You should fly it to Oshkosh 2015; it's a big Pitts anniversary this year, and of course as everyone knows, Curtis Pitts built his first one using many Taylorcraft parts.