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Lucky shot of a hawk in flight

Posted by John M on March 2, 2010 at 8:29pm

I realize that this isn't directly relevant to the development of uav systems, but here is a lucky shot I got last week of a red tail hawk in flight. I pulled this frame from a video using VLC player and the camera that I used was a keychain camera I bought on ebay.

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  • John M March 3, 2010 at 10:12am
    I just uploaded video to youtube, and it is still processing, so quality might suffer until its done.

    hopefully this embedding link works

  • John M March 3, 2010 at 9:40am
    Regarding the camera, I really like it compared to my old flycamone 2 (which ended up in the pacific ocean). My favorite feature of this new camera is the ability to timestamp the video. It makes it great to find frames or keep track of when vids were shot.
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    Doug Weibel March 3, 2010 at 9:33am
    @Tim - actually you can get close-in air to air footage of raptors pretty easily depending on where you are and what you are flying. It is very common for me to share thermals in my (full scale) sailplane in the Colorado mountains with Redtail Hawks, Golden Eagles and Bald Eagles. They sometimes don't mind you and will fly with you for several minutes if they are just hanging out. Golden Eagles in particular often will fly very close within my own wingspan. They do get pissed when you sneak up on them though.
  • John M March 3, 2010 at 9:30am
    This was shot in Laguna Niguel, CA, not Ruzghan sorry. Just curious though, where is Ruzghan? looked it up on google and nothing really came up.

    I will post the video for the purpose of demonstrating the recording quality, but most likely you will be disappointed with the hawk portion. This frame was pulled from a .25 second blip of the hawk going across the field of view. VLC player is an awesome tool for anything related to video.
  • Tim McMahan March 3, 2010 at 8:32am
    I'd like to see the video as well. That's just awesome! Last fall, we got to see a Bald Eagle fly over our airfield from the ground and I thought that was cool, but this is air-to air. You just don't get to see that sort of thing.
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    Jesse & Jared March 3, 2010 at 7:52am
    Share the video.
  • Tim McMahan March 3, 2010 at 7:44am
    So the keychain cam (Still waiting on mine) was just recording, and this was found on the footage? That's awesome! Mine better hurry up and get here!
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    Krzysztof Bosak March 3, 2010 at 4:58am
    Where it is? Ruzghan?
  • Angus Peart March 3, 2010 at 3:03am
    Gary, did we skip M3.14159265358979323846264?
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    Gary Mortimer March 3, 2010 at 12:10am
    No next one is M3.45637M9 T72 NTBFBF7
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