Something to think about.

[mixedgas]

Here at PL we often concentrate too much on hardware.

Lets talk about choreography and manipulating the audience a bit.

Here is a good example of good choreography, but not in laser. These are 40 years old, so they have a really good crew keeping them working. Note spellbound audience.

This is known as a "mirror" sequence/ Note the clever use of the 'Z" axis.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUsiHAYJByM



But they are not insane.

This is insane, note the rotation about the X axis.

see 2:39 in this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8alR9...eature=related

[300EVIL]

Here at PL we often concentrate too much on hardware.

Lets talk about choreography and manipulating the audience a bit.

Here is a good example of good choreography, but not in laser. These are 40 years old, so they have a really good crew keeping them working. Note spellbound audience.

This is known as a "mirror" sequence/ Note the clever use of the 'Z" axis.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUsiHAYJByM



But they are not insane.

This is insane, note the rotation about the X axis.

see 2:39 in this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8alR9...om=PL&index=63


Video A is fascinating, video B is ho-hum (due to bad editing at least in my opinion)

Steve

That's really cool! Though, I think it would make me sick riding with those guys. Also, Both videos are the same. I think you may have missed one.

[shrad]

Alouette III have been the state of the art in helicopters for ten years in the world, and they were designed and made in Belgium

that's something I'm proud of, as many are still used nowadays

older sea rescue Alouette III are still converted into hi-tech submarine detection and mine dropping

[mixedgas]

That's really cool! Though, I think it would make me sick riding with those guys. Also, Both videos are the same. I think you may have missed one.

Lynx fixed.

Steve

[Doc]

Awsome! I saw something a few years ago where Australian farmers were herding sheep with helicopters, it was absolutely amazing. Can't find it on Youtube though.

[shrad]

and now, do you imagine these pilots do such tricks?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8t41avFuCc

this man surely knows about gyroscopic movement

[soforene]

Pure BS.
Just think about physics.
Plus the fact that "the cameraman" pretty much keeps it in frame the whole time despite some seemingly radical and unpredictable movements.

Almost as if it was added afterwards ..........

[madgadget]

hhaha cool. I have a RC heli but I'm still just getting used to moving it around a few feet. I was thinking I could strap a pointer to it and go finding idiots who like to point at planes haha...

[mixedgas]

hhaha cool. I have a RC heli but I'm still just getting used to moving it around a few feet. I was thinking I could strap a pointer to it and go finding idiots who like to point at planes haha...

RC has gyros and a high rotor inertia to mass ratio compared to the real thing. And a very high power to mass ratio compared to the real thing.
Whole different ballgame when you have a digital gyro on board too. Having flown both, the real aircraft is very, very , hard compared to RC, and real easy to drift into G overload, etc. In fact the only way I could even touch the real aircraft's controls was to have enough air moving over the tailboom and vertical stab for it to exert countertorque, and that was 5 minutes of not having time to even sweat.

Ahem, but we're drifting here:

So getting back to choreography, lets talk about the parallels between the Rotares de Portugal and a good laser show...

Steve

[QUAZAR]

Theres no doubt the Lynx is a supremely manouverable helicopter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLejE5vfV_o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MfFStR_fA8