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Lifer
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Alabaster, AL USA
I was getting really frustrated at working out the baffling for the engine and figured I might as well try out the new GoPro camera the wife bought as a surprise for me.
I really need to find a good, cheap video editing tool. Man I miss the old Windows Movie Maker.
[edit] Better format version uploaded.
Last edited by Dart; 10/27/1507:58 PM.
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It's alive! Also, no cranking hu? Modern technology rocks.
Also, doesn't Windows Movie Maker (think it's called Windows Movie Studio now) work if you download from MS site? I know it does in Win7, no idea 8 or X.
But, Sony Movie Studio is $50 and quite capable and easy. Similar in concepts to WMK, not that easy but a lot more powerful.
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I do not hand prop! Indeed, I didn't take it into account when mounting the prop so it's not on the compression stroke when on the level - one has to hand prop starting from the four o'clock position, instead of the two....not that I knew to do that until after we had torqued and tracked the prop.
But I like it because she stops with the prop at the level.
Thanks for the heads up on the new Windows Movie Maker....downloaded and the video updated. It's clear I need to dink around with the GoPro settings to get rid of some of that aliasing.
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Think I saw a couple of well earned grins there man.
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My wife made some observations when she saw this:
1) I need to raise the camera, as bending over like that makes me look like I have far more belly than I do. 2) I'm a big weirdo...nobody else she knows reflexively uses the word wondrous, or pronounces it "wonderous." 3) I need to remember that I'm making a video and not just doing stuff with a camera on - the little "airplane strut" and tuneless whistling are things I do when I work by myself.
At least I turned off the salsa music that was playing earlier when I made this. I'm pretty sure nobody wants to see what I think of as salsa dancing next to a WWI replica.
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1) I need to raise the camera, as bending over like that makes me look like I have far more belly than I do. 2) I'm a big weirdo...nobody else she knows reflexively uses the word wondrous, or pronounces it "wonderous." 3) I need to remember that I'm making a video and not just doing stuff with a camera on - the little "airplane strut" and tuneless whistling are things I do when I work by myself.
At least I turned off the salsa music that was playing earlier when I made this. I'm pretty sure nobody wants to see what I think of as salsa dancing next to a WWI replica.
All those things made it all the more personal. It showed your personal joy in your project.
1) I need to raise the camera, as bending over like that makes me look like I have far more belly than I do. 2) I'm a big weirdo...nobody else she knows reflexively uses the word wondrous, or pronounces it "wonderous." 3) I need to remember that I'm making a video and not just doing stuff with a camera on - the little "airplane strut" and tuneless whistling are things I do when I work by myself.
At least I turned off the salsa music that was playing earlier when I made this. I'm pretty sure nobody wants to see what I think of as salsa dancing next to a WWI replica.
All those things made it all the more personal. It showed your personal joy in your project.
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+1 I agree. Unless you were going for some professional looking diy documentary. I thought it was a "wonderous" video that you were showing your friends of your milestone accomplishment.
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I keep thinking that someone is going to make a video of me working in the hangar without me knowing - I tend to dance around a lot when working on the aircraft, or kick the floor in frustration and talk to the pieces I'm making.
It's rather foolish to see some fifty year old guy acting like a little kid.
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I keep thinking that someone is going to make a video of me working in the hangar without me knowing - I tend to dance around a lot when working on the aircraft, or kick the floor in frustration and talk to the pieces I'm making.
It's rather foolish to see some fifty year old guy acting like a little kid.
I think my wife would be surprised if I acted any other way!
Man, you are getting close to the finish line. So what is your proposed first flight now ?
Speaking of first flight, I flew up to Kitty Hawk and went to the airfield "First Flight". They have done very good on replicating the old wooden workshops and set-up the Wright Brothers used. You would have felt right at home there Dart. Very moving to fly by looking down at the field where they made those first flights.
That's not too far for you to do Dart. It would be fitting.
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Actually it would be much closer to get permission to land at Maxwell AFB down in Montgomery, Alabama - where the Wright brothers set up their one and only flight school.
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Cowl paint job is coming along - needs a little sanding and another coat:
The boring weird technical stuff I've been working on is the baffling that splits the engine area in two, making the top a high pressure area that forces air around the cylinders to the low pressure area below in the interests of cooling. Like everything, there's a zillion ways to do it and I wound up using ideas from about six different airplanes...along with an idea or two of my own.
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