"Flash Back Wednesday" Trying to Take Photos/Video from Model Airplanes

When our only child was about to be born, I purchased a "small" (at that time) Sony video camcorder to record events. That summer I bravely installed it inside the cabin of my 1/4 scale Sig Cub. I had fitted an OS Pegasus 240 to this plane and figured a video would be pretty cool. So I installed the camera, turned it on and attached the wing and struts to get the aircraft mobile, then fired up the engine and flew it approximately 5 miles around a group of islands (where I own a summer camp) from a friend's boat. I figured that the video was impressive at the time. The first time went off without a hitch (pretty cool seeing yourself steering your plane from a boat). The second time there was some sort of interference between the camera and the receiver and I hastily landed the plane and shelved this idea for the time being. Video from up high was interesting. Video close to the water was not, kind of the opposite of videos taken from the ground where when the airplane is up high video is boring.

Videos from drones far exceed the quality I was able to achieve with and 8mm camcorder, but the difference was in the sound. The Pegasus had so much power that it cruised at an rpm not far from what a real Cub would turn.

So you were not alone in your quest for pictures!