[KOML] Aerial photos

[Craig Schroeder <craigclu@bigfoot.com>]

I've only done this a half dozen times, but I had great success by having
my pilot friend hold the airplane on its side and taking the picture just
as I felt unweighted as the plane lost lift.  We got pretty good at timing
this and covering the prescribed area.  

This all started when we would use his Grumman Sport (low wing) with a
bubble canopy.  I couldn't get a decent angle without too much wing being
in the frame so we were experimenting with plane attitudes for getting the
framing right when we discovered that nice, dead almost vibration-free
point.  Don't eat too much luch prior to doing this acrobatic sort of
stuff!   I was printing 16X20's with HP5+ via 645 Fuji R/F that showed
minute detail and birch tree branches amazingly well.  It was an easy combo
to control in the confines of the small plane and the 75mm/645 framing
perspective was just right for the land photos we were working on.


Craig Schroeder, CLU
craigclu@bigfoot.com
http://www.win.bright.net/~craigclu