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WARNING!!!!-Helicopter vibration and EX Battery
If anyone finds my BP-U60 battery near Appleton WI please return it.
It was set in and clicked into the camera on a Tyler Nose mount. How it released in flight is anyone’s guess.
Only 10 minutes into the flight with a 5-blade helicopter we lost power from the camera for a flash, then it was back, then gone again. No battery upon landing.
Next battery got taped in there real tight.
Not a good day.
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Yep. Helicopters are like that.
What kind of helicopter has 5 blades? Seems like that would be a very smooth platform.
In 1988, I dropped a Shure SM-57 (with 6′ XLR) out of Bell Ranger while covering an off-road race in Nevada at an altitude of around 600 feet. I got a call a week later from Ivan Stewart’s crew saying that my mic and cable were hanging from their frame rails. They found it while steam cleaning their Toyota race truck a few days after the race. They sent it to me and it still works today.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
2-Sony EX-1 HD . -
The helicopter is a MD500E.
Not sure beyond that.
Cool you got your gear back.
I do not expect to get mine back-I’m pretty sure it’s in a field. -
https://www.mdhelicopters.com/helicopters/pdf/MD500ETechSpecs/500e_all.pdf
The factory is a few miles from us. they also make the Apache attack helicopters. We see them quite a bit all over.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
2-Sony EX-1 HD . -
In the early 90’s, I (purposely) jettisoned a VERY hot and smoking brick battery from an a-star into Tampa Bay from about 500 ft.
Haven’t seen it since.
Brian Young
Miami Beach
http://www.flacaproductions.com
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