Made an interesting video in the Tcraft today

[Len Petterson]

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Just some faugths on the between the gear camara mount.
Grass field operation:
I never seen what green landingstrip before?
No it's not a landingstrip It 's grass on the lens from the low and over I did to at Johnsons!
Float operartion:
Whoo! the biggest fishing tale I seen!
Operation from gravel:
D--m it I need a new lens again!
Norden Ontario operation:
Cant't you keep the lens clean what red stuff?
Blood, nooo, we have mosquitos here you know

[PT13Pilot]

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Yup, that was my friend Bill's L-2. That's the one I worked on and flew quite a lot. He sold it earlier this year and it went to North Carolina I believe. Maybe the owner will find their way here some time.
CJ

[Ragwing nut]

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I have flown into Rolla a couple times passing through. There was a fairly nice L-2 based there at one time. Been 3 years ago since the last time i was there.

[PT13Pilot]

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Man, I hope you guys have at least an 85 in there if you're planning on using that big mount and camera! Better mount it on the centerline or you'll be flying in circles!!

[bashibazouk]

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Thanks for the gimbal mount! I'm waiting for the Inspector to come sign off on it...



(Kidding! I really do suck at Photoshop.)

[Dan Michaels]

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Very cool thread! Great video clips! I love this type of stuff!!



Yep! I started a new endeavor this summer designing and manufacturing camera gimbals for RC aircraft & robots. I'm working on scaling down one of my 2 axis gimbals and plan to mount it to the strut of the Tcraft as soon as it's back in the air... 3-4 weeks hopefully.

Planning on shooting HD video and stills. In about 3 months I should have an IMU stabilized gimbal for super smooth shots.

Here's one of my gimbals I intend to scale down & modify

Chris that is the same Nikon I have D40X 10 mgpix. Are you able to remote it to the inside. I know they have units that control it from the laptop. I have not looked into it yet though. I work on and off for a newspaper and they would love plane shots.

Dan

[Hank Jarrett]

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It's easy to get that effect. You leave the doors open and sit with one cheek each out the door. Looks nice and roomy then! Remember too it isn't just the hat, got to have the coat and tie too.
What i would really like is a nice 41 Studebaker in the background.
Hank

How the heck did they manage to get those shots of the girl sitting on the boot cowl? did everyone before the war weigh under 75#?

[VictorBravo]

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At least a mount on the hat shelf looking over my shoulder out the windshield. Wouldn't that be GREAT for student instruction!

Make sure you wear that silly Fedora hat like the original ads show, have a good looking girl next to you, and of course the extra foot of shoulder room and headroom that the advertising artwork implies :dance:

[Hank Jarrett]

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Seems like Taylorcrafts have changed a lot of lives for the better. I would bet CG never thought he would have so much impact on so many lives for so long.
I have to make up a video camera for my plane. At least a mount on the hat shelf looking over my shoulder out the windshield. Wouldn't that be GREAT for student instruction! To be able to go back and review the lesson from the cockpit view after the session would REALLY let the lessons sink in. Also a lot of fun to re-watch lessons on those cold overcast days we can't fly.
Hank

[N74DV]

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Very cool thread! Great video clips! I love this type of stuff!!

DJ are you listening, gonna do that with your stuff too???

Yep! I started a new endeavor this summer designing and manufacturing camera gimbals for RC aircraft & robots. I'm working on scaling down one of my 2 axis gimbals and plan to mount it to the strut of the Tcraft as soon as it's back in the air... 3-4 weeks hopefully.

Planning on shooting HD video and stills. In about 3 months I should have an IMU stabilized gimbal for super smooth shots.

Here's one of my gimbals I intend to scale down & modify

[PT13Pilot]

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Rick,
You're right, Vichy is a bad weather magnet. It's the highest elevation by several hundred feet around here and 1500 acres of flat land, with hills and trees everywhere around it. It's always windier, colder, and just plain weirder weatherwise than any other place in the area. Love the old airport though. Started flying models there when I was 12, and glad to be back "home" now.
And if it wasn't for that neglected little red Tcraft with broken spars a few years ago, I'd probably still be working for someone else and hating life. On my last day, at my last job, I tore it apart, put it on a trailer, and drug it home. And decided that day I'd never work for another shop that would tell me how to do my job again. So I have a soft spot for that airplane and the guy that owns it. It was 10 degrees Sunday and I spent all day cleaning it up and waxing it (for free of course), after I was done with the annual. That airplane was a life changer for me.
CJ

[PT13Pilot]

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Ok, here's the setup. Total weight as it sits is 6.9 ounces. The camera is capable of 640x480 @ 30FPS in video, 1024x768 stills, and has many different modes. You can also attach a servo to the lens and pan it up and down 90 degrees. Neat little unit. Camera is $99 and a 2 GB card at Walmart or where ever is dirt cheap now. It has a built in battery that's good for maybe 15 minutes of video or quite a few stills. The remote switch which will also power it is another $30 I think. I can get the camera and switch for under $100 through a dealer I know. On the back side of the inspection cover is just a 600 MAH pack I normally use for a reciever pack and a micro 6 channel reciever I had laying around. From a spare channel you can trigger video start/stop or stills. But you can't change modes in flight.
And like I said, if you want to see some other cool things I've done with the camera on models, see my other video's on youtube.

[Rick Hadley]

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You do get some mean weather down there, Chris. The time I spotted those DC-3's I was dodging a very nasty thunderstorm as we were driving north toward Rolla and I detoured out around to the east and came back in past the Vichy airport. That was a couple of years ago, not the storm that wrecked them.

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Really neat Chris!!

[PT13Pilot]

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Bill,
Thanks, was just messing around. Some days I feel like long pretty wheel landings, some days I like making the turn onto the runway, especially if someone is sitting there waiting, fun to see the look on their face when you taxi off the runway and behind them. Last year when I was burning in the new brake linings I shot 3 pts on that runway and had it stopped easily before the end, there's a 2-300 ft displaced threshold on that runway because of the highway, and I've been known to scare the crap out of people on the highway for a laugh. My friends now gone L-2 had spoilers. I would come around at pattern height, then full spoilers and make the numbers. I miss that airplane! Problem was it took 5 minutes to climb back up to do it again.
I was tempeted on the way home to land at my buddies 1200 strip, but it's been real wet here and his strip is rough, and I'm not gonna do anything to hurt those origional metal wheel pants, so I just sucked the shingles off his house and kept going. That's what FAR stands for right? Frequently Abused Rules?
And Rick, I'm at Vichy and so are the DC-3's. After the tornado this spring, what was left of them was pretty much destroyed. They got pushed backwards off the abandoned runway, then sideways untill the gears dug in and finally snapped. I'm amazed at how many people I meet all over the country that know that airport from those -3's sitting there.