OK, flying the Ercoupe on a windy day is easy but getting the video “right” was not. But this is a first attempt and I used a cheap Flip Video Camera. Actually the camera does a nice job, but it did not like imaging the propeller. I actually shot 20 minutes of video of the [...]
I took Nancy once around the patch a couple hours ago. She says she will go again and work on getting used to it. I had planned on only once around and that’s what we did. I did fly a longer (than normal, for me) pattern to keep the turns more shallow and (fortunately) greased [...]
The Susquehanna River provides about 1/5th of the fresh water in the Chesapeake Bay. The river originates at Otsego Lake in Cooperstown, NY, and flows south through eastern Pennsylvania and into Maryland, entering the Chesapeake Bay at Havre de Grace, MD. We had been looking forward to a clear afternoon/evening in which to catch colorful [...]
