New tailcam...just not on the tail yet
 

I finally made the plunge & bought a wide angle bullet video camera to mount on the vertical tail of my RV-6. I flew today to get some test footage with it mounted on a RAM Mount in the cockpit. Here's the footage:
http://www.thedukes.org/rv/video/200...0&%20spins.wmv



More info on the camera, etc here: http://www.thedukes.org/rv/tailcam.html

Good times! Enjoy,

WOOOOOWWWW!

Great video!

Thanks,
d

Now Thats what I'm talking about!
 

Wide angle, facing backwards Except for PX rides I might put it on the other side.

Waay cool shot!

Frank 7a

Just watched the video
 

And I'm going to aerobatic school in July and now I gotta get me one of those!

The vertical rolls are going to look hot...What I mean I am going to look hot doing them...:)

So can you tell us what you use to record the video from the camera?

And I assume you dub the music on top after you edit the footage down?

Cheers

Frank

Nice Vid Groucho, makes me want to get off my *** and finish dimpling the wing skins.

Your setup has xlnt pic quality
Crank out some more.

I like it!
 

Very Niceeeeeeeeeeeeee
Thanks for doing it!

Very Cool
 

Yes, nicely done. Sure does motivate us to get back in the shop and keep building.

Thanx,

Thanks everybody. I had fun filming it. :D The bullet camera is labeled as having a 170deg field of view & I believe it. I have a ram mount on both sides of my cockpit, but didn't take any video today with the camera mounted on the right. It's only about a foot from my face on that backwards facing video...uber-wide angle.

I the bullet cam has a BNC analog video output. I connected it to the input on my Canon HV-10 HDV camcorder & put it in AV->DV mode. I didn't have the sound hooked up to my camcorder, so I editied everything down (about 40 minutes worth of aerobatics video) then just slapped a song on top of it. It's more interesting with music I think anyway...as long as you don't pick Michael Bolton tunes.

I just showed the video to my wife on the TV downstairs & she said I'm going to need another one of them...one for the tail (as planned) and one to keep inside the cockpit. Yippee!

Unfortunately, I'm leaving Tuesday for Alaska for three weeks, so I won't be putting out any new videos for a while. I'm starting the tail mod as soon as I get back.

cool
 

Groucho,

That is a most excellent video. You fighter jocks look so calm and cool while you are doing acro....how do you do that?

Thanks for the motivation.

Tony

Thanks! Hey, I cracked a smile a couple times in there. Acro is such a blast & the RV's a great plane for having a good time with it!