I've got Friday on my mind...

Pretty busy with work (yuck) ATM, so don't have long to post. But I though I would quickly share these videos that the Mongrel shot of our flying over the weekend.

The Mongrel had a new Eflite P47 Thunderbolt model to maiden. I gave him a push in this direction, but he did plenty of independent research too and the P47, or "Jug" came up trumps according to all accounts. He had a very successful maiden, and the plane just slows down beautifully to land.





The zero had a bit more footage shot of her..., this is nice to have of course. With so many flights under her belt you figure her time has to be close to up. BTW I switched from an APC style 8x6 to GWS Hyper Drive 8x6 prop, and man - what a difference.




The Mongrel also strapped his FlyCamOne2 to the top of his Ultrafly ViVi for a bit of a pilots eye view of a flight.



Finally, we also tried to capture our warbirds in flight (from the air using the easystar as the camera platform) with Nathan as the pilot in the first instance, and then tried to catch Nathan's Cessna in flight with myself as the pilot - it's harder than you might think - here's what 15 minutes footage yielded:



Not great perhaps, but we had fun.

The Mongrel is selling those Flycamone2. His blog is linked on the left, although I'm not sure the shop part of it is open yet. For mine I would say the flycam's are impressive little units. Light, very high resolution capture (as always youtube mangles it). As for the Easystar - a good camera platform for the most part, although lacking the rudder authority to maneuver at low speeds. Must get round to doing that rudder mod. Okay - I have to do some work - Ciao.