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Here's video taken by a wide angle video camera mounted to my windscreen for an airshow flyby at 200 feet and 400 knots.

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That was awesome! I love the helmet/windscreen cam stuff. More??

Wade

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You should take videos for every pass you do. We had a couple of Skyraider pilots out here reportedly get busted/hassled for supposedly flying over the crowd. A video would have proven their innocence.

Wade,

Thanks Wade! A freelance photographer owns the whole video and it's 20 minutes long but he said we could play with this little snippet. It gets a little long while we're waiting to take off but T-6s, a Grumman Duck, a Corsair, a couple Mustangs, and other warbirds are doing low flybys as we wait so that's pretty cool. I'll see if he'll let me post the whole thing though I'm not sure it photobucket will take it in it's entirety.

Paul,

Was that taken at Waukegan?

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Yah, sure was.

Paul,

That's great, I love the pilot eye view stuff! Let me ask you, since you don't have a HUD what do you use for an altitude reference? Things seem to happen pretty fast I wouldn't imagine that you'd want to look down at the altimeter?

Also it seems like you were performing an S turn sort of. What was your bank angle?

Pete

Pete,

The Air Boss briefs us to set our barometric altimeters to zero so we have instantaneous above-ground-level altitude info at 200'. My T-33 was one of the Canadian Forces Avionics Upgrade Program (AUP) airplanes so it has a radar altimeter that I set to just a hair under 200' so it beeps rapidly in my headphones if I fly below 200'. I'll shoot a verrry quick glance at my baro altimeter as I begin to level off for the flyby. I tried to set up the flybys for a banked (approx 60 degrees) photo pass of sorts in front of the crowd so that necessitates starting the pass with a heading flying slightly away from them so I can bank towards them through show center (some guys call it a "banana pass" since it's a curved flight path) while still keeping an eye on the "no-fly" crowd line boundary set by the FAA.

Paul,

That looks like a lot of fun! I just missed my T-33 ride (but that's another story)

I have a question about the sound...Is most of that noise just wind or is that engine too? I hear different things about jet flying noise, some say its nice and quite and others say it's loud. I guess it depends on the airplane and the headgear?

Thanks for sharing that video!

Zane

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