Hi Jules,

Nope, you have beaten me to this one. - thanks for the links and research..

The video over Kent is pretty stunning. Looks like he is a professional photographer who (now) does aerial work http://www.nextgen-images.co.uk/. Brave guy for taking a $5k HD video camera for a flight off the edge of a cliff

It would be fun to fly one of these in Christchurch, and link the video directly back to the local ATV repeater on 1.3GHz. Would need a steerable antenna + on board GPS + pointing processor, or a high power TX and omni-antenna along with video camera etc.

On an unrelated subject, I recently caught up with an mate from the UK (by email) who I haven't seen for 30 yrs. He worked for BBC Outside Broadcast for many years before they outsourced services. He was recently involved with a live advert. He had to get several professional live links up and running for a specific time/date. These included a couple of aircraft, several skydivers and several ground positions. They only had 3 weeks to get the whole job together - tech stuff, rehearsal sky dives - everything. It caused quite a bit of stress  in the process see  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIUChm7fJjs

Regards,

Mark

At 01:02 a.m. 22/08/2009, you wrote:

Hi Mark

You probably know all about this stuff - but I've just stumbled across it - Its fascinating...Jules

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9090254903329465230 amazing flight

http://www.nextgen-rc.co.uk/

https://www.mikrocontroller.com/

http://www.mictronics.de/?page=mikrokopter

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=716870

http://vimeo.com/5463102 incredible stuff - great shots over Kent cliffs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrocopter