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Western Wanderings, Wings 'n Wheels

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The Birnie Flying Circus' Highland Spring 2023

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Making the Most of the Minisport Part 4.2 - The Dawn to Dusk Competition 2023

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Making the Most of the Minisport Part 4.1 - Just Get Lost

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Making the Most of the Minisport, Part 3 - Stills, Screenshots and Soundbites

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MiniSport Mods Part 5: AirCon and Airbrake

Another MiniSport Modification, or 2, that you might want to think about over the winter months. This video contains some experiences of working with perspex sheet which others might find useful. Perspex/Plexiglas/Lucite/Acrylic sheet is a very different material to Polycarbonate/Macrolon and the properties of both can be a good or bad thing depending on the result you want. This video is shows my experience of working with Perspex sheet to produce a heat-moulded windscreen for my SD1. I was happy with the original 3-Piece design for stability and as a camera mount, but I got a lot of turbulence around my neck which was uncomfortable and decided to investigate alternatives. Since this is ...

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Eyes In The Skies - EC and Me

Просмотров 436Год назад

This is the long-promised discussion of Electronic Conspicuity - specifically SkyEcho and SafeSky - from my perspective. For what it's worth, I wasn't a fan of this technology when I first encountered it. SkyEcho was OK in that there was no requirement for the user to work with it in flight..."Plug 'n Play", as they say, but the results were inconsistent and unreliable, not to say misleading. S...

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Western Wanderings, Wings 'n Wheels

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The early summer meanderings of the Moray Mosstrooper, together with yet more engineering problems identified and - probably temporarily - solved. The still image of The Mosstrooper brushing a wingtip through the weeds at East Fortune was taken by Dennis Penny, who is a regular attendee at sporting events in Scotland. See more of his work here: www.PennyPictures.co.uk This may well be the last ...

The Birnie Flying Circus' Highland Spring 2023

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The Birnie Flying Circus' Highland Spring 2023

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A summary of the first 6 months of 2023, with some Minisport engineering, flight testing and the first of a long distance test of the aircraft and the pilot - over 1000 miles in under 36 hours, from the north of Scotland to the south of England...in fact, as far south as you can land without crossing the Channel. OK, that's not strictly true, but almost.

Making the Most of the Minisport Part 4.2 - The Dawn to Dusk Competition 2023

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Making the Most of the Minisport Part 4.2 - The Dawn to Dusk Competition 2023

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Welcome to the second instalment of Part 4 of Making the Most of the Minisport. In the first instalment, we looked at reviving the traditional methods of light aircraft navigation. Now, by participating in the International Dawn to Dusk Competition, we can put that knowledge into action. The competition challenges participants to undertake a self-imposed task "to encourage the most interesting ...

Making the Most of the Minisport Part 4.1 - Just Get Lost

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Making the Most of the Minisport Part 4.1 - Just Get Lost

Просмотров 325Год назад

Hello folks, and welcome back to the Shed. This production, unlike the previous episodes in the series, will be in two parts. With the war in Ukraine now entering its second year, this is my attempt to provide some support for the efforts being made throughout the world to relieve the suffering of the people in that desperate situation, right on our doorstep. I have set up a Just Giving page wh...

Making the Most of the Minisport, Part 3 - Stills, Screenshots and Soundbites

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Making the Most of the Minisport, Part 3 - Stills, Screenshots and Soundbites

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In Part 1, we looked at the camera equipment available to the air-to-air photographer in a single seat aeroplane, and Part 2 covered some options for mounting them on and in the aircraft. Now, in part 3, we’ll look at using action cameras for stills photography, how to get decent still images from shaky footage and finally a quick look at sound recording.

Making The Most of a Minisport Part 2 - Point 'n Shoot

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Making The Most of a Minisport Part 2 - Point 'n Shoot

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Some thoughts regarding camera placements, coping with vibration and camera shake and general shoot management.

Making the Most of a Minisport - Part 1 - Hello Hollywood

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Making the Most of a Minisport - Part 1 - Hello Hollywood

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Making movies from a Minisport. This is my experience of teaching myself air-to-air film making and other things that make flying more fun. This is Part One of five, and covers camera options and some of the advantages and limitations that come with them.

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The Summer of '22

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A summary of the Summer of 2022 as seen from the Birnie Flying Circus, together with some SD1 Minisport maintenance and comments. It's been a bit of a mixed-weather Summer and most of the events we'd planned to attend were either cancelled or were impossible to reach from our field, which is on the "wrong" side of the mountains. As a result, the BFC "tune" of last year really hasn't had the cha...

All Aeroplanes Bite Fools - Making Friends With The Minisport

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All Aeroplanes Bite Fools - Making Friends With The Minisport

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A little late, perhaps, but my views on the detail of flying an SD1 Minisport. The opinions are mine alone, not intended to be an Instruction Manual, but might be useful to new pilots or those who might be considering being one. I haven't paid too much attention to general handling because every aircraft will be different in small ways...see the update to the "numbers"... and will vary with wei...