Addicted2climbing
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Hello All,
Do you have a GoPro camera and are looking to find a great way to get your video out of the cockpit and onto the wingstrut or wing cabane? The FAA recently changed its stance on the use of external GoPro cameras so the worry of what the FAA thinks is now a thing of the past. I have been testing this product for over 8 years and selling it as a product for the last 4 with many sold and not a single incident of a camera even budging in flight. I am a private pilot myself with a background in designing products for the film industry so I merged my love for flying and my design skills for the film industry and developed this product. The mount is machined from custom 6061 aluminum extrusions. The camera mounts to a professional camera ball mount to help set up the shot and maintain the cameras stability. The design is such that it will work with various sized chord length and leading edge shaped struts since the mounts rubber feet contact the strut at tangent points to the Radii. This design allows the mount to have a wider range of uses between aircraft since it does not rely on matching the exact profile of the strut to work. The mount is sold in various versions shown below. If you happen to fly more than one aircraft I can put a package together to add additional strap sets for use on a single mount.
The breakdown is below:
Cessna: $135 plus $5 shipping. (Holiday price $125 shipped within USA, other locations please inquire)
C1 Cessna 140a through 175, Stinson 108 series and Glassair Sportsman.
I even put this on a Christen eagle 'I" Strut
C2 Cessna 180 & 182
C3 Cessna 185 through Strutted 210
Piper: $115 plus $5 shipping (Holiday price $105 shipped within USA, other locations please inquire)
P1 Piper J3, J4 and Aeronca Champ (likely others, I have to find more to test) J5?
Carbon Cub: Cubcrafters sells a version of my mount specifically designed for the Carbon Cub. I gave them exclusivity on this version so please visit cubcrafters if you have a Carbon cub. However, if you already own a CarbonCub mount but want the ability to use it on other aircraft listed above, contact me and I will sell you the additional items to outfit the other aircraft.
New version available soon and already tested on aircraft listed below:
Currently in production and will be available late December or early January. I am putting people on a list to contact when it’s available so feel free to contact me to get on the list.
Cessna 120 and 140 (non a model 140)
Bearhawk (all versions) (see video below)
Rans (All versions)
Piper short wing
Piper J2, PA-11, PA-12
Zenair CH750 Cruzer, CH701, CH750 and Savannah
Taylorcraft
Interstate Cadet, L6
Kitfox (currently in evaluation at Kitfox aircraft)
Supercub, Top Cub and Legend cub
Stearman, Waco and jungmeister
And just about any 46 era strutted aircraft
Also the mount can be configured to work with anything tubular so long as the rubber points contact at the tangent to the tube. Cessna & J3 front clamp range is 1.1" to 3" diameter tubing. To do so may require a strap change to match with the diameter of your tubing. I have used it on the following: Motorcycle forks, Hanglider, Ultralight, Sailboat mast, ATV roll bars and tubular bumpers, Gocart, Hot Air Balloon upper burner frame, Mountain bike tubing, Wakeboard boat tower. Converting the mount from Strut configuration to Tubular configuration takes less than a minute.
Here are some videos and other sites:
Here is a link to my youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPkbgRO81PVUeH7GGwV_4JA
watch the motorcycle video to see mount being used in a non aircraft application.
Here are images of the mount on various aircraft: http://imgur.com/a/GZHA1#0
Bearhawk Canyon flight: http://vimeo.com/89347437
There is a bit of jello in this video since Mike is working the throttle quite a bit and the frequency of vibration is changing suddenly.
Carbon cub videos from j3 club member captual.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEx527Ln8Gs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycPpQq6MG9w
Here is a video from an Alaskan pilot on a C185: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEP1qzDlMoA
Here is a video of a guy in Switzerland: http://vimeo.com/87499479
If you have watched any of the episodes of Adventures on the fly then you have seen my mount in action as Allen uses it for his show. http://aotf.tv/
For those interested please email any questions or order inquires to the address below.
Thanks again for your time, and happy holidays everyone.
Marc Webster
Cloudbase Engineering LLC
cloudbaseengineering@gmail.com
Do you have a GoPro camera and are looking to find a great way to get your video out of the cockpit and onto the wingstrut or wing cabane? The FAA recently changed its stance on the use of external GoPro cameras so the worry of what the FAA thinks is now a thing of the past. I have been testing this product for over 8 years and selling it as a product for the last 4 with many sold and not a single incident of a camera even budging in flight. I am a private pilot myself with a background in designing products for the film industry so I merged my love for flying and my design skills for the film industry and developed this product. The mount is machined from custom 6061 aluminum extrusions. The camera mounts to a professional camera ball mount to help set up the shot and maintain the cameras stability. The design is such that it will work with various sized chord length and leading edge shaped struts since the mounts rubber feet contact the strut at tangent points to the Radii. This design allows the mount to have a wider range of uses between aircraft since it does not rely on matching the exact profile of the strut to work. The mount is sold in various versions shown below. If you happen to fly more than one aircraft I can put a package together to add additional strap sets for use on a single mount.
The breakdown is below:
Cessna: $135 plus $5 shipping. (Holiday price $125 shipped within USA, other locations please inquire)
C1 Cessna 140a through 175, Stinson 108 series and Glassair Sportsman.
I even put this on a Christen eagle 'I" Strut
C2 Cessna 180 & 182
C3 Cessna 185 through Strutted 210
Piper: $115 plus $5 shipping (Holiday price $105 shipped within USA, other locations please inquire)
P1 Piper J3, J4 and Aeronca Champ (likely others, I have to find more to test) J5?
Carbon Cub: Cubcrafters sells a version of my mount specifically designed for the Carbon Cub. I gave them exclusivity on this version so please visit cubcrafters if you have a Carbon cub. However, if you already own a CarbonCub mount but want the ability to use it on other aircraft listed above, contact me and I will sell you the additional items to outfit the other aircraft.
New version available soon and already tested on aircraft listed below:
Currently in production and will be available late December or early January. I am putting people on a list to contact when it’s available so feel free to contact me to get on the list.
Cessna 120 and 140 (non a model 140)
Bearhawk (all versions) (see video below)
Rans (All versions)
Piper short wing
Piper J2, PA-11, PA-12
Zenair CH750 Cruzer, CH701, CH750 and Savannah
Taylorcraft
Interstate Cadet, L6
Kitfox (currently in evaluation at Kitfox aircraft)
Supercub, Top Cub and Legend cub
Stearman, Waco and jungmeister
And just about any 46 era strutted aircraft
Also the mount can be configured to work with anything tubular so long as the rubber points contact at the tangent to the tube. Cessna & J3 front clamp range is 1.1" to 3" diameter tubing. To do so may require a strap change to match with the diameter of your tubing. I have used it on the following: Motorcycle forks, Hanglider, Ultralight, Sailboat mast, ATV roll bars and tubular bumpers, Gocart, Hot Air Balloon upper burner frame, Mountain bike tubing, Wakeboard boat tower. Converting the mount from Strut configuration to Tubular configuration takes less than a minute.
Here are some videos and other sites:
Here is a link to my youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPkbgRO81PVUeH7GGwV_4JA
watch the motorcycle video to see mount being used in a non aircraft application.
Here are images of the mount on various aircraft: http://imgur.com/a/GZHA1#0
Bearhawk Canyon flight: http://vimeo.com/89347437
There is a bit of jello in this video since Mike is working the throttle quite a bit and the frequency of vibration is changing suddenly.
Carbon cub videos from j3 club member captual.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEx527Ln8Gs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycPpQq6MG9w
Here is a video from an Alaskan pilot on a C185: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEP1qzDlMoA
Here is a video of a guy in Switzerland: http://vimeo.com/87499479
If you have watched any of the episodes of Adventures on the fly then you have seen my mount in action as Allen uses it for his show. http://aotf.tv/
For those interested please email any questions or order inquires to the address below.
Thanks again for your time, and happy holidays everyone.
Marc Webster
Cloudbase Engineering LLC
cloudbaseengineering@gmail.com
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