Avian’s Blog

Here's a nice video shot from a camera aboard my father's model airplane:

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The airplane is EProjekt4, a fully aerobatic radio-controlled model airplane. It was designed and built from scratch by dad two years ago. The plane is propeller-driven and uses an 1.2 kW electronically commutated brushless DC electric motor. Power is provided by a 5-cell 4000 mAh lithium-ion polymer battery pack.

Video was recorded on a SD card using the tiny ACME FlyCamOne2 which was mounted under the airplane's fuselage (you can just see the propeller at the top of the frame).

The recording shows a panoramic view of a few villages around the model airfield on Planinsko polje, Slovenia, and a first-person view of a couple of aerobatic maneuvers.