Sunday - July 18, 2004

My first scale aerotow on video

5:22  24.9mb  QuickTime movie  Sony DCR-HC40 miniDV edited on a Mac with iMovie

I thought it might be a good idea to learn how to aerotow my scale ship before we arrive at the Nationals in a week, and so did a group of SOAR club members.  We now have permission to fly aerotow at a farmers private grass strip, and it is a perfect site for this.  We all wanted to prepare a little better for the upcoming scale aerotow cross country event at the Nats, it will be a new event.

The first tow you see on the video is my very first scale aerotow launch and landing.  The launch and flight was uneventful, the landing was a little hard, the down comp. on my programming was a little much, and when I hit the flaps on final the down was a little more than expected.  I pulled back the stick rapidly, and even though the landing looked rough, no damage was done.  I flew it three or four more times that day.

Also, this was the first use of my new palm sized Sony miniDV camera.  As you will see, I have not mastered it yet but the image quality is much better than shooting mpeg video from my still camera.