Best Micro Cam for an Airplane that I May Never Get Back?

[wavetrain75]

My beloved Guinea Pig is standing on death's door just waiting to be pulled through (but I've started building a new one with improved bomb drop and glider tow winch).

So the first GP is going to be sent on one last mission to drop a strike force behind enemy lines. Not sure of all the details yet. Paintball guns, paratroopers, JATO packs and surface to air rockets will probably be involved.

So I don't really want to send the gopro with it. Any of the cheap micro cams any better than any other?

 

[Crazy Goats]

Hmmm... not sure of any small cams that record. But anyhow, that sounds like a lot of fun! Giving her a proper sendoff.

 

[mikeporterinmd]

After watching the show where they drilled 30 some holes into a GP, it's hard to imagine how bad yours must look

Mike

 

[PsyBorg]

I started with and still have one of these.. but they have been discontinued. http://www.nitroplanes.com/86p-988-dice-minicam.html

The closest and better version I can find on Amazon is this (which I may grab one myself to replace the old one) https://www.amazon.com/FREDI-Portable-Handheld-Recorder-Detecting/dp/B01FA8SLV6/ref=pd_sbs_421_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B01FA8SLV6&pd_rd_r=9N3T934SN2ZZ19TDSGG4&pd_rd_w=MBoV8&pd_rd_wg=1qSE9&psc=1&refRID=9N3T934SN2ZZ19TDSGG4

 

[wavetrain75]

After watching the show where they drilled 30 some holes into a GP, it's hard to imagine how bad yours must look

Mike

It still flies pretty good. The wing tips are warped (creased) so it doesn't track quite right. I cut up the underside of the fuse with a few versions of the bomb drop and adding wider landing gear to prevent tipping in the ground (lost more props taking off than I did landing). And the entire fuse is parallelagrammed. I had a few versions of a steerable nose wheel that had panels and bracing haphazardly glued to the front end. And it just generally looks ratty. A well used plane that had a good run. It's time for a new one.

But if I had to choose one of my 20+ planes as my favorite, this is probably it, including store-bought. So yes, it deserves a send off. I'll build a new nose,l paint it like a C-130 and send it on a suicide mission deep into enemy territory.