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lcottrell

Joined: 29 May 2006
Posts: 1494
Location: Jordan Valley, Or

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:57 am Post subject: video run for Possum

Hi,

     Possum sent me his old video equipment when  he updated. He of course is in the south and they "don't need no stinking  enclosure" there so he wore a helmet with the camera mounted on the top. Here in  the North west it gets a bit nippley in the winter months so I have one on my  plane.  I first tried the camera mounted on the side of the plane, too  much vibration. Then I mounted it on the nose cone, side braced it, balanced my  prop, still too much vibration. So I zip tied it to the side of my headset,  since I don't have room enough to put it on top of anything on my head. I also  mounted his "bow sight" on the bill of my cap so that I could tell what I was  taking pictures of. All of my other attempts gave me a good sight of the ground  in front of me, not the big picture. Now this is better, still far from perfect  as you will see from the videos, but somewhat better. I still get windshield  tubes and an occasion heater hose in the way and since it is mounted on the  side, it gives the appearance of side slipping. I also noticed that I had it a  bit cocked as well as aimed a bit high. This time however there were not any  bugs on the camera lens. 

    My baud rate is somewhere around 400 but it still  would not upload the whole thing so it is broken into four different  segments.

    The portion of the Owyhee Canyon that it takes  place in is the "wild and scenic" part above Rome Oregon. There are no  roads down in there and it is a bit tight in some places. The walls are about  400 feet high or better in some places. It took a bit better than 7 minutes to  traverse the part that I flew. Speed was 60 + rpm's were 5900. I chose a side  canyon to get down to the bottom. I wish there was a landing spot there. There  is a pool that looks very promising. The only problem is that it is rough enough  getting there you would have to take a frying pan with you. Too much trouble to  bring fish out.

 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6472836839933705135

  

 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=603828583682541443

  

 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6632661737051880898

  

 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2613336321664686170

  

 Each clip is about 1.5 minutes long and they are in  order.

  

 Larry C

 do not archive

  

  

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rlaird

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 373
Location: Houston

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:22 am Post subject: video run for Possum

You definitely need to put amphib floats on that flying machine of

yours... you could have easily landed and taken off on that last bit

of river!



  -- Robert



On 7/19/07, Larry Cottrell <lcottrell(at)fmtcblue.com> wrote:

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 Hi,

     Possum sent me his old video equipment when he updated. He of course is

 in the south and they "don't need no stinking enclosure" there so he wore a

 helmet with the camera mounted on the top. Here in the North west it gets a

 bit nippley in the winter months so I have one on my plane.  I first tried

 the camera mounted on the side of the plane, too much vibration. Then I

 mounted it on the nose cone, side braced it, balanced my prop, still too

 much vibration. So I zip tied it to the side of my headset, since I don't

 have room enough to put it on top of anything on my head. I also mounted his

 "bow sight" on the bill of my cap so that I could tell what I was taking

 pictures of. All of my other attempts gave me a good sight of the ground in

 front of me, not the big picture. Now this is better, still far from perfect

 as you will see from the videos, but somewhat better. I still get windshield

 tubes and an occasion heater hose in the way and since it is mounted on the

 side, it gives the appearance of side slipping. I also noticed that I had it

 a bit cocked as well as aimed a bit high. This time however there were not

 any bugs on the camera lens.

    My baud rate is somewhere around 400 but it still would not upload the

 whole thing so it is broken into four different segments.

    The portion of the Owyhee Canyon that it takes place in is the "wild and

 scenic" part above Rome Oregon. There are no roads down in there and it is a

 bit tight in some places. The walls are about 400 feet high or better in

 some places. It took a bit better than 7 minutes to traverse the part that I

 flew. Speed was 60 + rpm's were 5900. I chose a side canyon to get down to

 the bottom. I wish there was a landing spot there. There is a pool that

 looks very promising. The only problem is that it is rough enough getting

 there you would have to take a frying pan with you. Too much trouble to

 bring fish out.

 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6472836839933705135



 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=603828583682541443



 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6632661737051880898



 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid 613336321664686170



 Each clip is about 1.5 minutes long and they are in order.



 Larry C

 do not archive

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John Hauck

Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Posts: 4639
Location: Titus, Alabama (hauck's holler)

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:47 pm Post subject: video run for Possum

Larry C:



Enjoyed the clips.



John W and I flew the canyon last May.  Brought back some fond 

memories.



Guarantee it will make your heart pump a little faster the further you 

get into the canyon.  As far as I could tell, you had not gotten up 

there to the point the cayon walls become vertical nearly to the top. 

At one point, John W was down in the canyon and I was flying high bird 

to help keep him clear of "bad" situations.  About the time I keyed my 

mike to tell him to climb out, he had already started his climb.  Up 

ahead was a narrow slot canyon with a 90 degree turn to the left, and 

more slot canyon ahead of that.  A really exciting place to fly. 

Beautiful too.



john h

mkIII



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