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Aerial Photography On The Cheap

(NOTE:  THESE PHOTOS ARE NOT OF THE FLYING DEUCES CLUB FIELD)

As a 'just for fun' project I tried some aerial photography.  The plane was a 80" Cub with a .90 4/stroke.  The Camera is a basic Vivitar 35 mm fixed focus with auto film advance.  I think it was around $19.00 at a local WalMart.  As you can see all it took was a servo and a few rubber bands to set it up.

The camera is mounted on a piece of wood that has a plastic baggie looped up.  The bag went under the wing before the wing was bolted down, the servo was connected to an open channel and the plane went up.  I placed the camera on the side of the plane so that there would be a reference to see (the wing tip) and it avoided the straight down shots we see.  I guess that's my only artistic addition to this very basic trial.

Because of the simplicity of the set up I found that I needed to set the 'flash' on because when the plane was up I couldn't tell if the servo actually tripped the shutter.  It's a bit odd to see your plane 'flash' while it's up there.

There are obvious downsides to this setup, but for a goof project it was fun.  My next one will be a digital camera and a laptop at the field to download the shots upon landing.

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