Aerial Digital Video

Take-off

Flying Field, runway

Aerobatics

Approach & Landing Binder Lake (640 res) Lake & JCRC Baseball Fields

 Video clips tend to be the most exciting, unfortunately if you have a modem dial-up connection these clips can take a long time to download since most of them are between 1 and 3 megabytes in size, so keep that in mind as you decide which clips you might like to view by clicking on the thumbnails of these videos shot around the JCRC Flying Field. 

The camera has the ability to shoot at various resolutions which determines the quality, size & detail that can be seen in the video. There is always a trade-off because the higher the resolution the shorter the recording time. 

Several clips are listed on the menu at left, including one of aerobatic flying. The plane starts off doing a loop, then a roll, leading into a hard right banked turn, then another loop. Zimmerman's absolute favorite JCRC flying site area video is this one of Binder Lake, which is situated just west of where we fly and where we also hold our annual float fly. Next to the video of Binder Lake one of the most exciting video clips is this one of Chris Byrd's Extra 300 flying by with his smoke system blowing out smoke behind the plane (below). It goes by pretty fast. One of the other drawbacks to Zimmerman's set up is that the camera is set to a wide angle view which is great for panoramic vistas but not very good for aerial-to-aerial video of other R/C planes in the air. This works out well because the smoke behind Byrd's Extra makes it very easy to see as it flies by from the left to the right (click photo above, next column).

According to Zimmerman, another one of the neat aspects of having a plane equipped to take aerial photos is having the opportunity to shoot new photos and videos of the various flying sites you  might visit as you travel around to the different R/C gatherings and fly-ins.

Here are a couple of examples of videos taken  above the Lake Ozark Radio Control Society's (LORCS) Flying Field located in Eldon, Missouri. The video above shows the new section of U.S. Highway 54 where they have recently  opened the divided highway that leads to the Lake.

The  next video shows a view of the  landscape looking east from the Eldon flying field.

In addition to Zimmerman's photos of the LORCS flying site, please go to Aerial Photography Page 4 to check out the aerial photos presented by LORCS member Daniel Smith.