Airplanes with cameras!

So i am no pro when i comes to rigging stuff up to my plane (E-Flite Apprentice) but i thought i did pretty good with putting my camera on it and flying it up in the sky!

Tools i used:
- Gopro HD HERO
- GoPro mount
- Duct Tape

yes.. i said duct tape :)

it was a project i did months ago so i don't really have pictures i can show or take but i will demonstrate.

1. Where i put the camera
2. GoPro HD HERO, great camera for outdoors and sports. Its so durable that its survived falling off skydivers, race cars, surfers etc. I highly recommend these cameras, you don't need their newest model, the older ones film the same but you can grab it for roughly $150 (10/17/12) 
 - http://goo.gl/dLmBH (via Amazon)
3. The mounting bracket for their mounts, the included sticky mount slides on that and that's it!





So, i highlighted with a circle where i put the camera.
I knew that you don't want to put it somewhere that is not in the center of balance because it would make flying it difficult. On this particular plane i was sort of limited on where i could put it but there was an open space right behind the back wheels which would make it so the camera wouldn't hit the ground when i landed. It wasn't exactly center but it was under the wings and on the far side so it wouldn't dive down.  I attached the sticky mount that comes with the camera on the plane and stuck pretty good but i didn't trust it entirely. So i grabbed my duct tape :) I secured the mount on all angles so that i had twice the protection.

After the camera was mounted i lifted the plane up by both of the wings to see how balanced it was and where i would need to trim it so it flew straight. I got it all trimmed up to where i thought i was good. I gathered my family and we went out to my backyard and i had my dad throw it, it took off nice and easy, nothing was crazy. It flew like normal, even a little better. Sometimes weight on the foam planes is a good thing. I recorded the whole flight with the gopro and it turned out awesome. the footage was upside down because i mounted it that way. But i put the file onto my computer and flipped it over and it was great. You can temorarily flip it with quicktime i believe.

My landing was a little rough but i didn't have a pad to land on so i used the thick grass and it worked out. I was nervous because i had a lot of people watching and i didn't want to hit anyone ha ha.