mini-camcorder on remote control plane

[moegolden]

ya gotta give him credit!
(try to watch in hd)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j4tR1X9P1U


apparently, one of these
http://www.hobbycity.com/hobbycity/store/catalog/AX-cloud.jpg

plus
one of these
http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/sony-webbie-hd_2.jpg


it might seem ho-hum, but from a photography perspective, for a regular person to be able to get a high quality shot from that high for that cheap is a major breakthrough.

[moegolden]

another http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67_xfqV3dzE

[moegolden]

upon further review, this guy has already made a business of it
http://www.youtube.com/user/skycamusa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfHOD2q8uUI
i gotta wonder if its legal. low flying planes, even if unmanned....

although this guy has some special expensive equipment http://www.skycamusa.com/faq.shtml

[moegolden]

then there's this one, looks nice, taken with the cheapest HD camcorder you can buy ($99 at walmart)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAmaWFvxqp4&hd=1

[gleet]

And if you like flying these, you can get a job doing it.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-topgun-drone7-2009jun07,0,7148259.story

The Pentagon is graduating its first class of drone pilots from the elite Air Force Weapons School in an attempt to keep the best in the air grounded in the fast-growing fighting program.
By Julian E. Barnes
June 7, 2009
Reporting from Washington -- The Pentagon is preparing to graduate its first pilots of unmanned drones from the elite U.S. Air Force Weapons School -- a version of the Navy's Top Gun program -- in a bid to elevate the skills and status of the officers who fly Predators, one of the military's fastest growing aircraft programs.

The elite flight schools of the Air Force and Navy are most closely associated with smart, tough fighter jocks. But over the course of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the MQ-1 Predator and more heavily armed MQ-9 Reaper craft have become, to many in the Pentagon, the most important aircraft the U.S. has deployed.......

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2009-06/47365239.jpg

[Budyzir]

And if you like flying these, you can get a job doing it.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-topgun-drone7-2009jun07,0,7148259.story



http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2009-06/47365239.jpg

Some show on the Military Channel profiled some of the first drone pilots, one of these guys was a F-16 pilot and former Thunderbird.

[weeniewawa]

Some show on the Military Channel profiled some of the first drone pilots, one of these guys was a F-16 pilot and former Thunderbird.

he was one of these guys?

which one?
http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/thunderbirds-calendar-08.jpg

[Shootr]

he was one of these guys?

which one?
http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/thunderbirds-calendar-08.jpg

The one with the big eyebrows...