An Interesting View

22.Nov.2006

Prop Shutter So I got this new phone that takes photos and video. Then I realized that I needed to buy an SD card to transfer said media to my computer (I’m too cheap to buy the plan with multimedia messages). Anyway, one of the first things I noticed was the shutter speed of the camera and what it does with objects moving relatively fast. The first shot is looking out the front window of a Cessna 172. Those horizontal streaks are the prop.

Bent Blades This shot was taken while we were working on a Blackhawk. We have the rotor running at 30% torque so it would normally look like the rotor disc you see when you spot a helicopter flying. Instead, the camera curves the blades and bends them as if they’re folded back for shipping. After seeing that photo, I wondered what video would do to the main rotor…

[ Javascript required to view QuickTime movie, please turn it on and refresh this page ]

Buried in Odds & Ends, The Guard | You know you want to say something

You know you want to say something

Leave some witty banter