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"Those Magnificent Men and their Flying Machines"


Technical Specifications: In the Air


Aircraft

Low Wing tail dragger, open cockpit: Wing span: 6'4", Wing area: 6.5 Sq Ft. : Weight: 180 oz. (with camera gear 194 oz). Wing loading: 28 oz/sq ft. (with camera etc 30 oz/sq ft)

Engine: OS 80 (very old) rubber mounted, Prop. 14 x 8. Fuel Tank: 12oz. (flight duration approx 15 min)

Remote control: 5 channel, 5th channel used for on/off control of camera and Video transmitter


Camera

Colour PC Board Camera, 38 x 38mm 3.6mm 1/4" M9 x0.5mm Lens of fixed focal length

Sensitivity - 0.015 lux sensor, 0.15 lux F 1.4

Enhancer for sharp pictures

Auto shutter. (This is important for outdoor work where lighting is variable) Very low smear, lag free, Backlight comp.

S/N >52dB, View angle 75 Deg., 12vdc/2va

Output - 2:1 interlaced composite color PAL with resolution of 384 TV lines across and 625 lines down.

(Higher resolution miniture cameras with 570 TVL across are available)

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Closeup of camera in 'hi-tech' protective shell with groundplane of antenna in background


Camera & Video transmitter were powered by a NiCad battery pack 10 cells (12 Volt @ 700maH)

Camera was installed in an old drink bottle (cut down to size) using EPP foam as packing material, this was then mounted in an EPP foam block glued to a ply plate and screwed to the fuselage cockpit area.


Transmitter

Vision: 30 Milliwatts @1250 Mhz F3, +/- 3.5Mhz Deviation: Sound: Subcarrier @ 6 Mhz, -15 dB, +/- 50 Khz Deviation


Antenna

3/4l Vertical Whip

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Ray Cooper (left) and Peter Cossins

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Are we having fun yet?


Technical Specifications: On the Ground


Receiver

Winersat WR 3000 Satellite Receiver

Pre-amplifier

28dB Gain (Gasfet + MMIC), 1.5 dB Noise Figure

Antenna

3/4l Vertical Whips

VCR

Domestic JVC PAL S-VHS VCR. (Any VCR with a composite input will do)

Monitor

Sony studio monitor. PAL and NTSC. RGB, YC (S-video) and composite inputs.


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Terry Cornall setting the VCR to record the trials

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Peter Cossins with the video receiver pre-amp

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