As beautiful as SoCal is, there are sadly fewer flyable days here in the winter, thanks to Santa Anas (well, fewer flyable days at my usual site, I have to get off my *ss and go check out the Elsinore site soon). With all this extra time, and a trip to Seattle for Thanksgiving, you get…. helmet cam!
The base unit which is epoxied to the helmet is a custom aluminum part whipped up on my brother’s CNC lathe:
The final result, just resting on the helmet, no epoxy:
The final result epoxied on, with 1/4 20 post, and a wing nut for tightening against a camera/DV camera/whatever:
And in action!
In generally, the paragliding the last few months has been *awesome*. Brad came out one weekend and took some photos from launch:
That day I had an awesome 2 1/2 hour flight, and got to *just* under 6000′ above sea level. Talk about fun! I’ve got over 23 hours of airtime logged now. Anyways, I’ll stop boring people now, but I’ll leave you with this wonderfully photo of the shavings left over from the lathe work:
