I'm looking at the Prosilica High resolution CCDs and all of them are 802.3 or Firewire based. What can I use to connect the camera to for downlink? Should I connect it to an onboard wifi card of some kind or a mount an entire router on the RC plane?
You could have a small routerboard with a wifi module onboard to do the bridging (I'm using the lightweight WBD-111 with a powerful XR5 wifi module, around $150 total, with a dipole in the air and a patch antenna on the ground). Select the right module for your application, the XR5 might very well be an overkill if you don't want 5 miles of coverage.
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