DakotaHawk
Well Known Member
I'm still having fun playing with my Christmas present. I mounted my GoPro camera on my wingtip to see what kind of video I could get. The mount is attached to the wingtip using two screws.
Max speed I saw during the flight was about 180mph, although my APRS track shows that I did 197mph at one point (that could be attributed to a tail wind?). I was doing some fairly tight turns and pulled 3.1 max g's.
Through the entire flight, the GoPro was steady. I was concerned about having this camera sticking out in the airflow and causing an out-of-trim problem, so I flew a slow pattern circuit - never exceeding 100mph, for the first couple of minutes. But after giving the aileron trim a couple of nudges, the trim wasn't an issue, so I headed off to the foothills to play around a little.
Here's the video...
(video link deleted by Dakotahawk)
Max speed I saw during the flight was about 180mph, although my APRS track shows that I did 197mph at one point (that could be attributed to a tail wind?). I was doing some fairly tight turns and pulled 3.1 max g's.
Through the entire flight, the GoPro was steady. I was concerned about having this camera sticking out in the airflow and causing an out-of-trim problem, so I flew a slow pattern circuit - never exceeding 100mph, for the first couple of minutes. But after giving the aileron trim a couple of nudges, the trim wasn't an issue, so I headed off to the foothills to play around a little.
Here's the video...
(video link deleted by Dakotahawk)
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