Recent content by BigDex

On group A certificate of airworthiness aircraft, mods such as this would be effectively impossible. At this end of the weight spectrum it's less onerous.

erm... none of a suitable quality to show on a photography forum! I have a couple taken in a dark garage with an iphone, however I'll be going to the airfield tomorrow to put a nice painted cowling around the camera, so I'll take a couple of pictures then.

I've got this project a little further down the road now; I'm still using video to help identify vibration issues (still a little when facing forwards or backwards; hopefully now resolved with more fillets welded to the bracket). The camera itself is now remotely operated and charged during...

If I've got that tap that size (need to check) then it's no problem to make you one from ali. If no tap, then I can do all but thread it! If you want to buy me a suitable tap, I can do that bit too. If you want it in a material other than ali (preferably not stainless, it's a b@stard to work...

I'm on it; I'll pick up some half inch bar tomorrow (smallest I've got is 1.25" at the moment). Does anyone know the pitch on the 1/4" tripod thread? Is that 3 required in total then?

I can do it (amateur machine shop in my garage). The one in the video looked like brass; can it be ali? Easier to machine and I've got some!

Hey Chris, Yes, I'm at Calton Moor and occasionally pass Otherton. If Icicle happens at Halfpenny Green this weekend, I'll be there, hopefully with a bigger retract servo so the camera daoesn't fold away at 60mph. I'll never market it, but I'll be happy to help anybody that wants to copy...

I just wanted to revisit this with a bit of an update; This project has kind of run away with itself, ending up with me learning C++ and the programming of Arduino boards. It's far from complete, but here's where I'm up to so far. Whilst the final destiny of this is still photography, I've...

GoPro HD2!

Cheers John, the issue with mounting it in/on/under the fuselage is one of obstruction; looking forward will get a prop, back a tailplane and either side will get lift struts and wings. Mounting on a wing at half span pointing forwards will get nothing in the way and also has some handy bolts...

Indeed, the wifi module looks ideal. I've been looking at the pan/tilt mounts used on radio controlled helicopters, which from a functional perspective look fine, but I can't see them standing up to the wind they'd be exposed to or holding the camera steady at speed.

I guess this is specific enough a question that I safely assume it hasn't been asked before, so here goes... I used to fly a conventional microlight, open to the elements and with minimal obstructions between me and whatever I took pictures of. I took a 50D and 24-105 everywhere I went (used...

Similar, it just has a greater range of height adjustment. :cool:

I got a new platform to put my 50D onto:

Nevermind, I upped the ante and bought a new Panasonic Lumix TZ6... as soon as I saw "Leica lens" the extra £80 was a distant memory. The wife will forget in a day or 2, and I'll have the camera for a long time.