Ruari Lynch writes:
My parents recently bumped into this guy who was filming using Quadcopters and DSLR cameras on Galley Head near Rosscarbery, Co. Cork. I managed to get in contact with him and he sent me a link to the footage, which turned out to be pretty good!
FPV R/C specialists Team Black Sheep unleash a winged UAV and quadrotor in the skies over Venice.
Apparently, the real challenge was finding somewhere to land afterwards.
Worth watching full screen and in HD.
An aerial of the Woodstock music festival (August 15-18th, 1969). An estimated half a million people attended.
Some of whom may not be in shot. On account of being higher than the plane.
In a promo for Betabrand clothing, BASE jumping team Maryland Crew & Co. leap from heights in Greece, Switzerland and Malaysia.
It’s a hard oul’ station, the life of a sponsored extreme sportster, right enough.
French photographer Normann Szkop‘s incredible, Cessna-borne aerials of the tulip fields of Anna Paulowna in northern Holland, taken last April.
See the full (100+ image) set here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyWWdth-aTo
Youtuber giantscale flies what appears to be a GoPro-equipped RC glider gussied up to look like an eagle.
Still. Soaring.
A long but still-worth-viewing-in-its-entirety eyeball pleaser featuring aerial from the 2012 World Parachuting Championships in Dubai.
Incredible footage from BBC’s Earthflight series featuring common cranes trained to fly alongside a microlight.
Earthflight uses many different filming techniques to create the experience of flying with birds as they reveal some of the greatest natural and man-made monuments of the planet.
AirPano is a site dedicated to high resolution 3D aerial panoramas. Moscow-based photographers Oleg Gaponyuk, Sergey Rumyantsev, and Sergey Semenov shoot aerial panoramas from helicopters, light jets, air balloons and radio-controlled helicopter models. So far they’ve created over 100 fully interactive 360º scrollers. You’ll lose yourself in there.
Above: Moscow City from the Capital’s City Building Complex – the highest tower in Europe.
