RC Model Airplane Crash on Video
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I built a plane and flew it successfully several times around the Harvard University Athletic Fields. Then I put a wireless video camera on the bottom of it. I didn't think the signal would go very far, so I flew it close to the receiver in the parking lot. Due to lack of sleep and depth perception, I crashed it into the top corner of a brick building. The video gets very fuzzy when I turn on the motor due to electrical interference from its sparks. After the crash, the camera came untaped from the plane, swung around, and pointed back at the nose for a while. It's interesting that the plane survived the crash into the brick wall, but not the fall into the pavement. Not to be outdone, a few days later NASA released video of Solid Rocket Booster Separation As Viewed From A Camera Onboard. |
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| Clips from the video in full DV quality -- tennis courts, me flying it, the building it crashed into, and the crash. | ||||
| Photos of the area, constructing another plane, and damage (take a look at the open camera) | ||||